There have been plays and films about Shakespeare, notably Tom Stoppard’s Shakespeare in Love. There have been plays and films about Christopher Marlowe, notably Peter Whelan’s The School of Night. Li ...
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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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