Ladislav SmoÃÂek (born 24 August 1932) is a Czech writer, playwright and theatre director.
Ladislav SmoÃÂek was born on 24 August 1932, in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He comes from a family with a military tradition. His father was an officer in the Czechoslovak Army. After studying at a secondary school in Plzeà Â, he graduated as a theatre director from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) in 1956. His schoolmate there was Václav HudeÃÂek and one of his professors was for also Frantià ¡ek Salzer.
He started his career in The City Theatre in Beneà ¡ov (1956âÂÂ1957), then he was active in Brno (1957âÂÂ1960) and in 1960 got a place as a director in Laterna magika in Prague. And after few more years he decided to move to the National theatre company where he in 1965 co-founded The Drama Club (ÃÂinohernàklub), where he remains employed as a playwright and director until the present.
In the period between 1992 â 1993 he was a director of the Vinohrady Theatre and he acted there as a director on a few occasions since that time. Though he wrote less than ten plays, he is together with Václav Havel and Pavel Kohout one of the most performed Czech playwrights.