Britský dramatik, scénárista, divadelní a filmový kritik Tom Stoppard je u nás dobře známý. Do povědomí českého diváka se zapsal na našich jevištích uvedenými hrami Rosenkrantz a Guildenstern jsou mrtvi, Travestie, To pravé či Arkádie. Filmoví fanoušci jej zase znají jako spoluscénáristu takových filmů jako Brazil, Zamilovaný Shakespeare nebo Enigma. Jeho hry i scénáře se často dotýkají možností vzpoury pro totalitnímu společenskému systému, s nímž má i své osobní zkušenosti – narodil se v roce 1937 ve Zlíně jako Tomáš Sträussler,...
Britský dramatik, scénárista, divadelní a filmový kritik Tom Stoppard je u nás dobře známý. Do povědomí českého diváka se zapsal na naš...
Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteries--romantic, scientific, literary--that engage the minds and hearts of characters whose passions and lives intersect across scientific planes and centuries, it is "Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and . . . emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're...
Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference be...
Plays Three: A Separate Peace Teeth Another Moon Called Earth Neutral Ground Professional Foul Squaring the Circle
Introduced by the author, this third collection of plays written by Tom Stoppard contains his television plays, written between 1965 and 1984. They show that Stoppard's writing for the small screen is comparable to his more celebrated stage work, as the masterly and timely Professional Foul demonstrates. In his introduction the author briefly describes how the pieces came to be written and the...
Plays Three: A Separate Peace Teeth Another Moon Called Earth Neutral Ground Professional Foul
Plays Five: Arcadia The Real Thing Night & Day Indian Ink Hapgood
This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language. Arcadia received the Evening Standard, the Oliver, and the Critics Awards and The Real Thing won a Tony Award.
Plays Five: Arcadia The Real Thing Night & Day Indian Ink Hapgood
This work comprises three sequential but self-contained plays, 'Voyage', 'Shipwreck' and 'Salvage'. They tell an epic story of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in the struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors.
This work comprises three sequential but self-contained plays, 'Voyage', 'Shipwreck' and 'Salvage'. They tell an epic story of romantics and revolutio...
The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen in love. But is it the real thing? In "The Real Thing," Tom Stoppard combines his characteristically brilliant wordplay and wit with flashes of insight that illuminate the...
The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some th...
In 1972 an elderly avant garde artist is murdered, leaving his two friends suspecting each other. To reveal why, successive scenes flashback toward the 1920s and then progress back to 1972. Each of the three was infatuated with Sophie. Before she tragically went blind she fell in love with one of them after viewing his picture in a gallery. Which artist Sophie loved has been a bone of contention all their lives. This full length play in one act was a radio play before it was staged to acclaim in London.
In 1972 an elderly avant garde artist is murdered, leaving his two friends suspecting each other. To reveal why, successive scenes flashback toward th...
