Tom+Stoppard


 * Tom Stoppard**

**Sir Tom Stoppard** (born Tomáš Straussler 3 July 1937) is an influential British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love and has won one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. In 1939, Stoppard left Czechoslovakia as a child refugee, fleeing imminent Nazi occupation. He settled with his family in Britain after the war, in 1946. After being educated by schools in Nottingham and Yorkshire, Stoppard became a journalist, a drama critic and then, in 1960, a playwright. He has been married twice, to Josie Ingle (1965–1972) and Miriam Stoppard (1972–1992), and has two sons, one from each marriage, including actor Ed Stoppard. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard)

//Playwright and screenwriter, Tom Stoppard//

__ **Plays:** __ 1964: A Walk on the Water 1965: The Gamblers, based on the novel The Gambler by Dostoevsky 1966: Tango, adapted from Slawomir Mrozek's play and Nicholas Bethell translation, premiered at the Aldwych Theatre 1966: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1968: Enter a Free Man. Developed from A Walk on the Water. First performed 28 March 1968. 1968: The Real Inspector Hound 1969: Albert's Bridge premiered at St. Mary's Hall in Edinburgh 1969: If You're Glad I'll Be Frank premiered at St. Mary's Hall in Edinburgh 1970: After Magritte frequently performed as a companion piece to The Real Inspector Hound 1971: Dogg's Our Pet premiered at Almost Free Theatre 1972: Jumpers 1972: Artist Descending a Staircase 1974: Travesties 1976: Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land first performed on 6 April 1976 1977: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour was written at the request of André Previn. The play calls for full orchestra 1978: Night and Day 1979: Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth - two plays written to be performed together. 1979: 15-Minute Hamlet 1979: Undiscovered Country - an adaptation of Das Weite Land by the Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler 1981: On the Razzle based on Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy 1982: The Real Thing 1983: English libretto for The Love for Three Oranges. Original opera by Sergei Prokofiev. 1984: Rough Crossing based on Play at the Castle by Ferenc Molnár 1986: Dalliance An adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Liebelei 1987: Largo Desolato, translation of a play by Václav Havel 1988: Hapgood 1993: Arcadia 1995: Indian Ink - based on Stoppard's radio play In The Native State 1997: The Invention of Love 1997: The Seagull - translation of the play by Anton Chekhov 2002: The Coast of Utopia is a trilogy of plays: Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage 2004: Enrico IV (Henry IV) - translation of the Italian play by Luigi Pirandello First presented at the Donmar Theatre, London, in April 2004 2006: Rock 'n' Roll - first public performance 3 June 2006 preview at the Royal Court Theatre.

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