Stoppard

Thomas Stoppard and his journey from wartime refugee to our greatest living playwright

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TOM STOPPARD: A LIFE by Hermione Lee (Faber £30, 860pp)  Transport yourself, in these sad days of silenced theatres, to a full-house Old Vic on the evening of April 11, 1967. It’s the opening night of Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, first performed the previous summer at the Edinburgh Fringe where it had terrible reviews … Read more

Britain’s greatest living playwright Sir Tom Stoppard secretly polished scripts

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Britain’s greatest living playwright Sir Tom Stoppard secretly polished scripts for 102 Dalmatians, Beethoven and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a new book has revealed. Sir Tom, 83, best known for acclaimed plays Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia, also worked behind the scenes on scripts for The Bourne Ultimatum, Star … Read more