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Tom Stoppard

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Brian Cox on Tom Stoppard’s sensational Rock’n’Roll: ‘I looked through the curtain and saw Mick Jagger and Václav Havel’ ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The actor, who starred as a Marxist academic in the acclaimed 2006 play at the Royal Court, remembers an astonishing writer of ideas and elegance

By the time I was cast in Rock’n’Roll in 2006 I had be…

2 days ago

‘He played with language better than anybody’: Terry Gilliam and John Boorman on Tom Stoppard ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Two film-makers who worked with the late playwright recall a man of extraordinary wit, endless invention and innate elegance

I was utterly knocked out by the way Tom Stoppard’s mind worked, his brilli…

3 days ago

‘I thanked him for ending my acting career!’ – theatre directors on their debt to Tom Stoppard ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Carrie Cracknell, Nina Raine and Belarus Free Theatre’s Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin share memories of working with the playwright and ‘guardian angel’

Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin, co…

5 days ago

‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked…

‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppard!’ – actors salute the great playwright ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Rufus Sewell, Christine Baranski, Susan Wokoma, Toby Jones and Harriet Walter share their unforgettable encounters with a theatrical giant

I worked with Tom when I was quite young, on Arcadia in 1993,…

7 days ago

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter

The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erud…

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