Stoppard
[stop-erd]
- TomThomas Straussler, born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
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At 73, Stoppard is intense and charming—and now he pauses to reconsider what he's just said.
During preview performances for the Broadway production, Stoppard sat in the audience taking notes.
A thoughtful purveyor of intellectual ideas, Stoppard also cares about a mass audience.
"A lot of it has to do with entertaining an audience," says Stoppard.
"It's an intellectual abstraction that we are running out of time and living in a doomed universe," says Stoppard.
Stoppard
- Sir Tom, original name Thomas Straussler born 1937, British playwright, born in Czechoslovakia: his works include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967), Travesties (1974), Hapgood (1988), The Invention of Love (1997), and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2002)
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