Translated and adapted by Vera Blackwell
[Starring] Harold Pinter as Ferdinand Vanek in "Audience"
with Peter Vaughan as the Head Maltster
and "Private View"
with Michael Bryant as Michael and Anna Massey as Vera

Place: Czechoslovakia. Time: the present. Ferdinand Vanek is a writer - but he works in a brewery. Audience takes place in the office of the Head Maltster of the brewery. In Private View Vanek accepts an invitation to visit Vera and Michael in their new apartment.

(Michael Bryant is a National Theatre player)

"These plays are written with clarity and wit ... In agreeing to play the part of Vanek, Harold Pinter is making a statement of his own, of support for Havel and of admiration for his work..." (Val Arnold-Foster, Guardian)