The author of 19 plays, Havel spent a total of five years in jail during the country's communist times, when he was closely watched by secret police for two decades until the regime's fall in 1989.
Autor 19 kazališnih predstava, Havel je proveo ukupno pet godina u zatvoru tijekom razdoblja komunizma, a policija ga je pozorno pratila dva desetljeća, do pada režima 1989. godine.