Tom Stoppard Plays 5 includes The Real Thing, Night & Day, Hapgood, Indian Ink and Arcadia.
Tom Stoppard was born in 1937 in Czechoslovakia. His early years were spent in Singapore, India and, from 1946, England, after his mother married an officer in the British Army. Leaving school at seventeen, Stoppard worked as a reporter in Bristol, before moving to London to work as a theatre critic and feature writer. During this period he began to write plays for radio and for the stage and published his only novel, Lord Malquist and Mr Moon.His first major success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, was produced in London in 1967 at the Old Vic after critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival. Subsequent plays include Enter a Free Man, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with Andre Previn), After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink and The Invention of Love. His radio pla
"I have never left a new play more convinced that I'd just
witnessed a masterpiece." --Daily Telegraph on Arcadia"This is a
brilliant, brilliant play. A play of ideas, of consummate
theatricality, of sophisticated entertainment and of heartache for
time never to be regained." --Sunday Times on Arcadia"In The Real
Thing he [Stoppard] combines some fly Pirandellian games with an
unequivocal statement about the joyousness of shared passion. And
the result is the rare thing in the West End (or anywhere else for
that matter): an intelligent play about love." --Guardian"How
excellent it is to leave a theatre thinking as this play makes you
think." --Financial Times on Night & Day"Hapgood is a new variation
on one of Stoppard's abiding themes: the black romance of reality
and appearance. This is a metaphysical spy-thriller, intricate,
elegant, and lucid...for sheer intellectual excitement, Hapgood has
no rival." --Sunday Times"Tom Stoppard's most cunning play--a
dazzling, double game of physics and espionage--remarkable."
--Guardian on Hapgood
I have never left a new play more convinced that I'd just witnessed
a masterpiece. "Daily Telegraph on Arcadia" This is a brilliant,
brilliant play. A play of ideas, of consummate theatricality, of
sophisticated entertainment and of heartache for time never to be
regained. "Sunday Times on Arcadia" In "The Real Thing" he
[Stoppard] combines some fly Pirandellian games with an unequivocal
statement about the joyousness of shared passion. And the result is
the rare thing in the West End (or anywhere else for that matter):
an intelligent play about love. "Guardian" How excellent it is to
leave a theatre thinking as this play makes you think. "Financial
Times on Night & Day" "Hapgood" is a new variation on one of
Stoppard's abiding themes: the black romance of reality and
appearance. This is a metaphysical spy-thriller, intricate,
elegant, and lucid...for sheer intellectual excitement, "Hapgood
"has no rival. "Sunday Times" Tom Stoppard's most cunning play--a
dazzling, double game of physics and espionage--remarkable.
"Guardian on Hapgood""
"Arcadia"
"I have never left a new play more convinced that I'd just
witnessed a masterpiece."--"Daily Telegraph"
"This is a brilliant, brilliant play. A play of ideas, of
consummate theatricality, of sophisticated entertainment and of
heartache for time never to be regained."--"Sunday Times"
"The Real Thing"
"In "The Real Thing" he [Stoppard] combines some fly Pirandellian
games with an unequivocal statement about the joyousness of shared
passion. And the result is the rare thing in the West End (or
anywhere else for that matter): an intelligent play about
love."--"Guardian"
"Night & Day; "
"How excellent it is to leave a theatre thinking as this play makes
you think."--"Financial Times"
"Hapgood "
""Hapgood" is a new variation on one of Stoppard's abiding themes:
the black romance of reality and appearance. This is a metaphysical
spy-thriller, intricate, elegant, and lucid...for sheer
intellectual excitement, "Hapgood "has no rival."--"Sunday
Times"
"Tom Stoppard's most cunning play--a dazzling, double game of
physics and espionage--remarkable."--"Guardian"
"Arcadia
"I have never left a new play more convinced that I'd just
witnessed a masterpiece."--"Daily Telegraph
"This is a brilliant, brilliant play. A play of ideas, of
consummate theatricality, of sophisticated entertainment and of
heartache for time never to be regained."--"Sunday Times
"The Real Thing
"In "The Real Thing he [Stoppard] combines some fly Pirandellian
games with an unequivocal statement about the joyousness of shared
passion. And the result is the rare thing in the West End (or
anywhere else for that matter): an intelligent play about
love."--"Guardian
"Night & Day;
"How excellent it is to leave a theatre thinking as this play makes
you think."--"Financial Times
"Hapgood
""Hapgood is a new variation on one of Stoppard's abiding themes:
the black romance of reality and appearance. This is a metaphysical
spy-thriller, intricate, elegant, and lucid...for sheer
intellectual excitement, "Hapgood has no rival."--"Sunday Times
"Tom Stoppard's most cunning play--a dazzling, double game of
physics and espionage--remarkable."--"Guardian
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