He started his career in The City Theatre in Benešov (1956–1957), then he was active in Brno (1957–1960) 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 (Činoherní klub), where he remains employed as a playwright and director until the present.
In the period between 1992 – 1993 he was a director of the Vinohrady Theatre and he acted there as a director on a few occasions since that time.[2] 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[3])
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)
^Z. Sílová, R. Hrdinová, A. Kožíková, V. Mohylová : Divadlo na Vinohradech 1907 – 2007 – Vinohradský ansámbl, issued by Divadlo na Vinohradech, Prague, 2007, str. 193, ISBN978-80-239-9604-3
Z. Sílová, R. Hrdinová, A. Kožíková, V. Mohylová : Divadlo na Vinohradech 1907 – 2007 – Vinohradský ansámbl, issued by Divadlo na Vinohradech, Prague, 2007, str. 117, 119, 124, 127, 136, 139, 144, 150, 189, 191, 193, ISBN978-80-239-9604-3