Jacques and His Master is a play written in 1971 by Milan Kundera, with the subtitle "An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts".[1] Kundera's work is a variation on Denis Diderot's late 18th-century novel Jacques the Fatalist. The play was first produced in Zagreb, former Yugoslavia, in 1980. It has also been staged in Greece, West Germany, Switzerland and France. On 16 January 1985 it had its English-language premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts under the direction of Susan Sontag in her American debut as a theater director. The text of the play was translated from French into English by Michael Henry Heim.[2][3] In 1986 the play was again translated by actor Simon Callow and directed by him in 1987.[4]