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Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'e ...Show more
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard by Tom Stoppard
Category: Fiction
Liubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just as she remembers it but hers is a diminishing world. The vast and beautiful cherry orchard is soon to be sold off against her mounting debts. The insistent warnings of Lopakhin, a p ...Show more
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Tom Stoppard's new play is a passionate drama of love and endurance, an intimate play with an epic sweep, the story of a family who made good.
Mick Rock Exposed: The Faces of Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard
Category: Music
Mick Rock is one of the true legends of music photography, who helped shape the images of a gallery of rock stars from the 1970s through to today, and whose work is showcased here in a career-spanning collection of edgy, sexy, and intimate portraits reproduced in immersive large format.
Penelope by Tom Stoppard
Category: Poetry
Let others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and a marriage bed, and the endurance of love.
Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard
Category: Fiction
A play that spans the history of Czechoslavakia between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock 'n' roll band came to symbolize resistance to the regime, and the British left, represented by a Communist philosopher at Cambridge. First published ...Show more
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Faber Drama
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stage ...Show more
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Category: Film & Tv
Tom Stoppard's reputation as a playwright was made when his dazzling debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, opened at the National Theatre. Fifty years later, the play's wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were in 1967 as the two ill-fated attendant lords from Shakespe ...Show more