Already a writer and a director, he was banned from the theatre following the Prague Spring in 1968, after which he became more involved in Czechoslovakia's dissident movement.
Havel, koji je tada već bio dramski pisac i redatelj, izbačen je iz kazališta nakon Praškog proljeća 1968. godine, nakon čega se više anagažirao u disidentskom čehoslovačkom pokretu.