Ladislav Smoček

Ladislav Smoček (* 24 August 1932, Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech playwright and theater director.

After studying at a secondary school in Plzeň he graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) in 1956. In 1965 he co-founded The Drama Club (Činoherní klub), where he remains employed till the present. Though he wrote less than ten plays, he is together with Václav Havel and Pavel Kohout one of the most performed Czech playwrights.

Plays

• Piknik (1965) (opening performance of The Drama Club /DC/)
• Dr. Burke's Strange Afternoon (1966) (translated into fourteen languages)
• The Maze (1966) (one act)
• Bitva na Kopci (?) (one act)
• Cosmic Spring (1970)
• The Noose (1972) (written in English)
• Nejlepší den (1995) (the only play performed in Plzeň instead of DC)

Selected performances - director

• 2006 – Les Liaisons dangereuses by Christopher Hampton, DC
• 2005 – Me and Jezebel by Elizabeth Fuller, Divadlo Ungelt
• 2004 – The Businessman from Smyrna by Carlo Goldoni, DC
• 2003 – Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry, Divadlo Ungelt
• 2002 – Mask and The Face by Luigi Chiarelli, DC
• 2001 – Deskový statek by Václav Štech, DC
• 1999 – Marriage Play by Edward Albee, Divadlo Ungelt
• 1997 – Wild Spring by Arnold Wesker, Divadlo Ungelt
• 1994 – Vodní družstvo by Josef Štolba, DC