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Theatre on the Balustrade (Divadlo Na zábradlí)

Theater in Prague founded in 1958. During the 1960s it was the center of progressive theater in Czechoslovakia, and especially the theater of the absurd. Havel began there as a stagehand and eventually became playwright. He was left the theater in 1968.
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