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PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — Dagmar Havlova, wife of a former Czech president, is to return to the stage this week in a critically acclaimed play by American author Israel Horovitz.

The former first lady, who turns 53 next week, will co-star with Petr Kostka in ”Park Your Car in Harvard Yard” at the Vinohradske Theater in Prague beginning Friday.

”It is a beautiful play and it fills me with joy,” Havlova said.

Under her maiden name Dagmar Veskrnova, she made more than 50 movies and starred in countless TV shows and theater performances before she married Vaclav Havel in 1997 and retired from acting, devoting most of her time to charity.

Havel, 69, a dissident playwright, became president after the 1989 ”Velvet Revolution” toppled the Communist regime in then Czechoslovakia. He retired from politics in 2003 after completing his second and final term as Czech president.

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Here’s a photo I like from the Woolly Mammoth production of Big Death & Little Death. I’m posting it to test my ability to upload photos. By the way, I did my resizing with the graphics software FastStone, which is astoundingly versatile and totally free. Available from download.com.

This is Gary and Miss Endor contemplating life (and death).

Mickey Birnbaum

The Canadian site Gaslight has posted the text of a Grand Guignol play, Andre De Lorde’s At the Telephone. Worth a look. I’d love a renaissance of Grand Guignol. Actors wading in their galoshes across a stage brimming in gore. Something to get an audience out of the multiplex and back into the theatre. If you stage it, they will come. They may even riot, as happened at a German production of Titus Andronicus recently.

Mickey Birnbaum

ok — so just exploring the blog but have nothing to say except I think this will be an excellent form of procrastination.

Jennifer Maisel

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