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 pozorišnih komada, Havel je proveo ukupno pet godina u zatvoru za vreme komunizma u zemlji, a policija ga je pažljivo posmatrala dve decenije, do pada režima 1989. godine.