Word: stoppard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interpretation of artwork is relative, playwright Tom Stoppard told a standing-room only crowd at the Science Center last night...
...Stoppard, the author of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and "The Real Thing," delivered the John M. Olin Lecture in Science Center C as part of the Distiguished Lecturer Series. In the past two years, the series has hosted Richard Rodriguez and Miss Manners...
...lecture, entitled "The Event and The Text," Stoppard who wrote the script for the movie "Brazil," contrasted opinion and taste and spoke about meaning in artwork...
...Stoppard said that taste and opinion become indistiguishable as a result of the constant effects of one's environment...
Gelber's straightforward direction showcases Stoppard's sharp verbal exchanges and dazzling wordplay. He and Watson make a fine team, both of them endearing in their pathetic plight. And but for a few swallowed lines, the supporting cast keeps the inspiring lunacy going at a quick, clever pace. Stoppard's stock of metaphysical puns and absurd rhetoric of despair flies so fast that they rarely become over-bearing. From all sides of the coin, a spirited showing for two of the Bard's interchangeable bit players...