Beckett, Havel And Their Plays For Each Other

“In 1982, Samuel Beckett dedicated a new play, Catastrophe, to Václav Havel, then a political prisoner in Czechoslovakia, serving a four and a half year sentence for ‘subversive activities’. … When Havel was released the following year, he returned the honour by dedicating a play, Mistake, to Beckett.” The two one-acts are being produced as a double-bill in London.