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...enjoying them. It is self-evidently a contradiction to call those plays somehow for an elite or highbrow intellectual minority. The experience itself seems to me a complete refutation of that. People just go to plays up and down the street. The people who come and see Rock n' Roll are the same people who will go and see any play within 300 yards of here...
...Stoppard's new play, Rock 'n' Roll, opening on Broadway Nov. 4, is about Czechoslovakia in the years between the 1968 Soviet crackdown and the 1989 Velvet Revolution - set against the backdrop of the rebel rock music of the era. The playwright talked with TIME's Richard Zoglin about the play, his tastes in rock and other matters. Excerpts...
...like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. Like everyone else in the population. I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them. Pink Floyd [featured prominently in Rock 'n' Roll] I actually ignored completely - my children used to listen to Pink Floyd, but I never did. I thought they were a pretentious rock band. I never took any notice of Pink Floyd until much later...
While kayaking is a solo sport, it's hardly for hermits. The Washington Kayak Club, based in Seattle, boasts some 700 members and sponsors everything from fall outings on the Cedar River to viewings of the sockeye salmon swimming upstream to clinics at local pools on how to roll your boat over in the water. Year-round festivals include the weeklong Calusa Blueway Paddling Festival, which starts Oct. 27 in Fort Myers, Fla., and features more than 50 group paddles. You'll always be the master of your kayak, but it's more fun when a paddling buddy comes along...
When his interviewer arrives, Tom Stoppard is standing outside the Broadway theater where his latest play, Rock 'n' Roll, is about to begin previews. Sporting an open white shirt with the sleeves partly rolled up and tousled (if graying) hair that still gives him the look of an overage college student, he's enjoying a cigarette in a circle of warm spring sunshine that has managed to find a hole in the Manhattan skyline. But he really should be off his feet. A few days earlier, in the rush to catch a plane to New York City, Stoppard stubbed...