The Memorandum November 20, 2010

In 'The Memorandum,' renowned playwright, former political prisoner, and the first president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, presents a spiky satire of bureaucracy gone mad. When the managing director of an enormous corporation discovers that all office communications are suddenly being written in "Ptydepe," a newly invented and impossibly complicated language, his attempts to get one memo translated lead him through an increasingly ridiculous maze of red tape.