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Usually, all the plot intricacies and convolutions in a Stoppard play will bewilder the audience, sucking them into the Sysiphean task of figuring out the play. Stoppard's funny and impassioned dialogue demands some sort of response...
Written by Tom Stoppard...
...about people who do everything to avoid reality. The characters, a group of playwrights and actors, hide behind their words and lines in a collective cerebral effort to avoid that most precarious of danger zones, the human heart. A popular offering for perennially over-intellectualized Harvard audiences, this Tom Stoppard play, like a Woody Allen film, could be about what happens to Harvard students when they grow...
...most of his works, Stoppard creates a confusion of plots and sub-plots, plays within plays, an inversion of theater and reality. Art imitates life and life imitates...
...THIS PLOT sounds a bit impenetrable and hard to follow on paper, then Stoppard has succeeded. His plays are made to be performed, not described. So if you have not yet seen The Real Thing on Broadway or in one of its other incarnations, that's a good enough reason to go see it at the Dunster House Dining Hall. And that may be the only reason to see it at Dunster, where the production proves itself to be rather lifeless and uninspired...