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...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...
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...
...spectacle of Tom Stoppard hoofing it through the theater district on a bum foot would be disconcerting to people who think of the playwright as something of an élitist. Ever since his sensational stage debut in 1967 with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--his absurdist riff on a pair of minor characters in Hamlet--Stoppard has become almost a genre unto himself, taking intellectual, often abstruse subject matter and turning it into challenging yet playful drama. His game, frequently, is the oddball juxtaposition: moral philosophy and gymnastics (Jumpers); Fermat's last theorem and Byron's love poetry (Arcadia); James...
...there's a very equal and strong relationship between producers, directors and screenwriters," says Richard Curtis, writer of quintessentially British comedies like Notting Hill and Love Actually. "So nobody would ever say to Marber, 'We don't much like what you've done here, let's bring in Tom Stoppard to write a couple of gags.' It's unthinkable that the solution to a problem would be found outside the relationship...
...Nathan D. Johnson ’09, and Simon J. Williams ’09. Produced by Margaret M. Wang ’09, Barry A. Shafrin ’09, and Zach B. Sniderman ’09, the performance featured works by the playwrights David Ives, Tom Stoppard, Anton Chekhov, and Alan Bennett. Each play was presented in a straightforward manner, without any nonsensical or superfluous elements added to a production for the sake of being “original.†The evening began with the one play that could have benefited from...