Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love, which premiered 27 years ago at the National Theatre, has two themes: the love of classical poetry and the love that dare not speak its name. Stoppard has said th ...
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For many critics, Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is their favourite Stoppard play. I have to admit it has never been mine. I originally saw it in 1982, its premiere, and then again in 2000. Seeing it n ...
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THE SMALL BACK ROOM (StudioCanal). A Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger dour 1949 film. World War II crippled scientist (David Farrar) has a drink problem and a troubled relationship with his girlf ...
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Tom Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia. The first time he wrote about his birthplace was in 1977 in a television play called Foul Play, a witty political comedy long overdue for revival. The second t ...
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