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Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his mistress and his extended family have to leave the state villa, which has been their home for years? While his former secretary, and the former secretary to his former secretary, grapple with the mechanics of change and his family prepare to vace an uncertain future, the chancellor himself considers his legacy amid visits from journalists, an infatuated student and his arch-rival and possible successor, Patrick Klein. With echoes of both King Lear and The Cherry Orchard, Vaclav Havel's "Leaving" addresses the themes of change, dispossession and the transfer of power from one generation to the next. The play received its English-language world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in September 2008. "Leaving" is Vaclav Havel's first play since he was propelled to political office in 1989.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Leaving
• Author: Václav Havel
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9780571247097
• ISBN: 0571247091
• ID: 04424100
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 114 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 127 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. October 2008

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