Pavel Kohout

Pavel Kohout var tidligere medlem av det tsjekkiske kommunistpartiet, men var aktiv på reformsiden under Prahavåren. Efter Warszawa-paktens innmarsj i Tsjekkoslovakia i 1968 var Kohout en sentral dissident, og en av grunnleggerne av protestbevegelsen Charta 77.  Han er oversatt til en lang rekke sprog.

Because he and other dissident theatre workers had been banned from working in the official theatre, he formed the company Living-Room Theatre with the actors Pavel Landovský, Vlasta Chramostová, Vlastimil Třešňák, and his daughter, Tereza Boučková to covertly perform an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth in living rooms in Prague. Czech-born UK playwright Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth is inspired by these events.
His most notable play is the drama Poor Murderer, that opened on Broadway in Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1976. It is based on the short story "Thought" by Leonid Andreyev.[1]
Kun norske utgaver
Pavel Kohout (1980). Skarprettersken. Aschehoug, Oslo. ISBN 82-03-10266-2.
Pavel Kohout (1982). Den hellige Klaras innfall. Aschehoug, Oslo. ISBN 82-03-10764-8.
Pavel Kohout (1990). Danse- og kjærlighetstimen – en tysk romanse. Aschehoug, Oslo. ISBN 82-03-16274-6.
Pavel Kohout (1996). Mordernes stjernetime. Aschehoug, Oslo. ISBN 82-03-20244-6.