AP Wire | 11/21/2005 | Report: Ex-Czech president to write play

Vaclav Havel, the former Czech president, is planning to write a new play.

"I have it already well thought out," the daily Pravo on Monday quoted Havel as saying. "In my head, it's almost finished. There's just one little thing - to write it down."

Havel didn't give any details, and he refused to say when he would start writing.

However, he has said he planned to write a play based on Shakespeare's "King Lear," as well as an autobiography.

Havel, 69, was a well-known dissident playwright when he led the 1989 revolution that peacefully toppled the communist regime in his country. He became leader of Czechoslovakia in December 1989.

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