Challenges, paradoxes, plays: Václav Havel - IV. Temptation

A variation on the still topical Faust story from the mid 1980s, in which Václav Havel captures the battle for one’s own identity with nonsensical mechanisms of power and in particular with the devil within us all. The evening will focus on the interesting circumstances of its genesis, the author’s own reflections and recollections, excerpts from a number of professional stagings and Ivan M. Havel in a production for video from the period when the play was banned at Czechoslovak theatres.