Plays 1, 2, 3 by Tom Stoppard
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Overview: Plays 1:
The plays in this collection reveal in combination the ‘frivolous’ and ‘serious’ aspects of Tom Stoppard’s talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. The author rounds off his brief introduction, giving the genesis of each piece, with the comment: ‘The role of the theatre is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and foremost as a recreation. This seems satisfactory’.
Leading off is The Real Inspector Hound, the ultimate country-house whodunnit; Dirty Linen moves a Whitehall farce to Parliament Square; Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth subverts Shakespeare; and After Magritte explains the inexplicable.
Plays 2:
This second collection of work by Tom Stoppard contains his radio plays, which complement (and sometimes prefigure) his work for the stage. The volume includes In the Native State, which became the stage play Indian Ink.
Also in this volume are The Dissolution of Dominic Boot, ‘M’ is for Moon Among Other Things, If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank, Albert’s Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died and an introduction by the author.
This new edition contains the previously unpublished radio play, On ‘Dover Beach’.
Plays 3:
This third collection of plays by Tom Stoppard contains his television plays, written between 1965 and 1984. They show that Stoppard’s writing for the small screen is comparable to his more celebrated stage work, as the masterly Professional Foul demonstrates. In his introduction the author briefly describes how the individual pieces came to be written and the circumstances of their original production.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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