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''Ela, Hela, and the Hitch'' is a play by
Václav Havel
Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as ...
. The play was written for the artistic director of the Theatre on the Balustrade,
Ivan Vyskočil
Ivan Vyskočil (born 21 May 1946 in Prague) is a Czech actor. He starred in the film '' Poslední propadne peklu'' under director Ludvík Ráža in 1982.
Selected filmography
* ''The Tailor from Ulm'' (1978)
* ''The Young Man and Moby Dick
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, as part of a longer evening, entitled ''Hitchhiking''. Along with ''Ela, Hela, and the Hitch'', Havel also wrote a sketch called ''Motormorphosis''. Reportedly, Vyskočil altered Havel's sketches for the performance, though the original text was discovered by a Czech theater scholar, Lenka Jungmannová. ''Motormorphosis'', in a translation by Carol Rocamora, was performed at the Havel Festival in 2006, a world premiere of the text as written. ''Ela, Hela, and the Hitch'' premiered in an English translation by
Edward Einhorn
Edward Einhorn (born September 6, 1970) is an American playwright, theater director, and novelist, noted for the comic absurdism of his drama and the imaginative richness of his literary works.
A native of Westfield, New Jersey, Einhorn graduated ...