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U.S. Actors to Do Havel in Prague: A play by Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovakia’s new playwright president, is being staged for the first time in Prague this week by U.S. actors. “Audience” will be performed in English and Czech and filmed for the Public Broadcasting Service, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Actors’ Studio, Patty Ewald, said Monday. The play deals with the interaction between a man and his boss at a brewery where Havel worked at one time during his long years as a dissident. Havel, 52, spent a total of five years in jail for opposing hard-line Communist rule and his plays were banned for 20 years. He was elected president last month after taking a leading role in a popular uprising that ended four decades of exclusive Communist Party rule.

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