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The Memo

Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy  /  3w, 12m

Vaclav Havel, Paul Wilson

By Vaclav Havel
Translated by Paul Wilson

NOTICE: Please be advised, this title is from the Samuel French Vault and is made from a scan of an archived manuscript. We hope you’ll treasure this glimpse into theatre history.

The Memo

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    3w, 12m

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This Orwellian gem is set in a model political bureaucracy where a harassed manager unwittingly authorizes an experiment that will introduce a new bureaucratic jargon to supplant the popular language and expedite regimentation. The fellow who engineered the scheme now bypasses his manager and becomes manager himself. The results of the new jargon are ludicrous nobody is able to translate the new directives. The former manager fights back from his night watchman job to regain his previous eminence only to encounter a still newer gibberish designed to supplant the last one.
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Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel
Václav Havel (1936 – 2011) was born in Prague, and was the first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia and the proceeding Czech Republic. In addition to his notoriety from a long history of Czech political involvement, he is regarded as one of the most influential Europe ...
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Paul Wilson

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