Leaving

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Dates: 
May 19 - June 20
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Vaclav Havel, Translated By Pail Wilson

Vaclav Havel, renowned playwiright (Temptation, Largo Desolato) and former President of the Czech Republic, returns to the theater with his first play in 20 years, and Wilma Audiences will be to see it in the U.S.  Leaving is an inventive story of a recently retired Chancellor who stuggles over questions of truth and power along with his eccentric family and humorous bevy of functionaries.  Allusions from Chekoh's The Cherry Orchard and Shakespeare's King Lear invade the Chancellor's consciousness in this wry political tragicomedy that recieved critical acclaim in Pragur and London