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  • Defending the Dissidents in Paris, Munich, and New York: Ceremony in Bohemia and the 1979 Show Trial of Charter 77

  • Sarah Guthu
  • Journal:
    Theatre Survey / Volume 54 / Issue 3 / September 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 August 2013, pp. 367-387
    Print publication:
    September 2013

  • In late 1982, a documentary drama entitled Ceremony in Bohemia was produced Off-Off Broadway at the Greenwich House Theatre in New York. The play offered U.S. audiences a glimpse behind the closed doors of a tiny courtroom on Spálená Street in Prague in Czechoslovakia. The production presented an account of the recent trial of six Czechoslovak activists who had been found guilty of “subversion of the Republic” and been sentenced, collectively, to nineteen-and-a-half years in top-level prisons. Their only crime was that they had protested unjust trials like their own. The press and all foreigners were barred from the trial. Only a few witnesses were allowed inside the courtroom to observe the trial, which lasted only two days.