Tom Stoppard Bücher

'One of Britain's greatest living playwrights to provide his most personal play yet.' The Times'The news that Tom Stoppard has written a new drama ranks as top-end seismic activity.' Daily Telegraph

Little Theatre Comedy Tom Stoppard Characters: 5 male, 3 female Complete Interior Set Riley's a dreamer with all sorts of off beat inventions and his latest one is a double gummed envelope that can be used twice used: once for sending and then turned inside out for replying. At home Riley is not well liked. His daughter is going to run away and marry a motorcyclist who turns out to be already married, and she can no longer support her dad in his unemployed h

Renowned for its powerful exploration of political themes, this play delves into the complexities of power, ambition, and morality. It offers a critical examination of the human condition through its compelling characters and intricate plot, making it a standout work in the realm of political theater. The play's relevance and depth have earned it a lasting place in literary history, captivating audiences with its insightful commentary on governance and ethics.

The Coast of Utopia is an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. The three sequential, self-contained plays, Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage, span the lives and loves of a group of Russian friends at home and abroad in the tumultuous years between 1833 and 1866.

London 1593: als der junge Shakespeare gerade an "Romeo und Julia" arbeitet, lernt er die bezaubernde Viola De Lesseps kennen. Fortan dient ihm die junge Frau als Muse und Inspiration für sein neues Stück, obwohl ihre Hand längst einem anderen versprochen ist... Das Drehbuch zum Film von John Madden mit Gwyneth Paltrow und Joseph Fiennes in den Hauptrollen.

Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteries—romantic, scientific, literary—that engage the minds and hearts of characters whose passions and lives intersect across scientific planes and centuries, it is "Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and . . . emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow . . . Exhilarating" (Vincent Canby, The New York Times).