Stoppard, Hear & Now
Interview with Stoppard on his latest work here.
Tom Stoppard along with Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, and Alan Bennett are among the only 4 playwrights which can virtually guarantee a sold out National Theatre. I guess one could add Mike Leigh to that list, although he works in theatre so rarely now.
Saw Hear and Now at the Gate. Michael Billington reviews it with the words “More matter with less art” at the start of his review.
I’d just pick up on some thing I liked about the show which were some of its visual ideas, particularly the window frames that the character picked up and opened, as if speaking from inside their houses, but I’d have to agree with Billington that I didn’t learn “anything much about the new South Africa”. Not sure I was meant to.
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About me
I'm a playwright and investment analyst. I have a broad range of interests: food, gardening, innovation & intellectual property, sustainability, architecture & design, writing and the arts. I sit on the board of Talawa Theatre Company and advise a CIS investment trust on socially responsible investments.
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Recent Work
Recent plays include, for theatre: Nakamitsu, Yellow Gentlemen, Lost in Peru, Lemon Love. For radio: Places in Between (R4), Patent Breaking Life Saving (WS).
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Nakamitsu
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Yellow Gentlemen
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