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The Real Thing
Di Tom Stoppard
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The Real Thing won the 1984 Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play, and the 1982 Evening Standard Award for Best Play.
The Real Thing has sold nearly 20,000 copies in the US to date.
The Real Thing was first performed in 1982 at The Strand Theatre in London, starring Felicity Kendal and Roger Rees and produced by Michael Codron. It was subsequently transferred to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway in a production by Emanuel Azenberg starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons. The play was revived in 2000 on Broadway and in London, then again on Broadway in a 2014 production directed by Sam Gold, starring Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Grove is republishing titles by Stoppard that were previously published by FSG (including Arcadia, Indian Ink, and The Real Thing) and updating our Stoppard backlist to give these books a fresh look. We are also publishing the old FSG titles in ebook for the first time.
The Real Thing has sold nearly 20,000 copies in the US to date.
The Real Thing was first performed in 1982 at The Strand Theatre in London, starring Felicity Kendal and Roger Rees and produced by Michael Codron. It was subsequently transferred to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway in a production by Emanuel Azenberg starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons. The play was revived in 2000 on Broadway and in London, then again on Broadway in a 2014 production directed by Sam Gold, starring Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Grove is republishing titles by Stoppard that were previously published by FSG (including Arcadia, Indian Ink, and The Real Thing) and updating our Stoppard backlist to give these books a fresh look. We are also publishing the old FSG titles in ebook for the first time.
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The Real Thing
Di Tom Stoppard
Descrizione
The Real Thing won the 1984 Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play, and the 1982 Evening Standard Award for Best Play.
The Real Thing has sold nearly 20,000 copies in the US to date.
The Real Thing was first performed in 1982 at The Strand Theatre in London, starring Felicity Kendal and Roger Rees and produced by Michael Codron. It was subsequently transferred to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway in a production by Emanuel Azenberg starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons. The play was revived in 2000 on Broadway and in London, then again on Broadway in a 2014 production directed by Sam Gold, starring Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Grove is republishing titles by Stoppard that were previously published by FSG (including Arcadia, Indian Ink, and The Real Thing) and updating our Stoppard backlist to give these books a fresh look. We are also publishing the old FSG titles in ebook for the first time.
The Real Thing has sold nearly 20,000 copies in the US to date.
The Real Thing was first performed in 1982 at The Strand Theatre in London, starring Felicity Kendal and Roger Rees and produced by Michael Codron. It was subsequently transferred to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway in a production by Emanuel Azenberg starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons. The play was revived in 2000 on Broadway and in London, then again on Broadway in a 2014 production directed by Sam Gold, starring Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Grove is republishing titles by Stoppard that were previously published by FSG (including Arcadia, Indian Ink, and The Real Thing) and updating our Stoppard backlist to give these books a fresh look. We are also publishing the old FSG titles in ebook for the first time.
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While this does bear the hallmarks of a Tom Stoppard play, it is not up to his usual standard. There is very little hilarity in the jokes, and the dialogue is rather uninspired. The short pieces of a play within a play were written to be deliberately bad, and he did achieve that to some rather hilarious results. The problem is that the plot feels contrived, and the characters are not sympathetic, nor are the unlikable in a particularly interesting way. They are flat. The premise of adultery wrapped up in more adultery, and the inability to maintain a constant, faithful relationship with one person is banal by virtue of being overdone. Overall, a work not worthy of a genius, and one wonders why it won prizes.
Rating: 3This play about love (when is it the "real thing"?) & jealousy doesn't age as well as some of Stoppard's other plays. That said, it is still a fun play to read & I would love to see it performed. The Stoppard touch is evident with certain scenes & pieces of dialogue repeating throughout the play, with differing emphasis or characters. The strength of the play (in my humble opinion) is in the exploration of how couples react to the infidelity (real and imagined).
Rating: 3Wow - what a great play. I was fortunate enough to see this on Broadway a few years back with the incomparable Jennifer Ehle.
Rating: 5Two couples negotiate marriage, creativity, love and infidelity in 1980s London. A beautifully clever scene involves a cricket bat vs. a plank of wood as a comparison of good writing vs. bad.
Rating: 3
A modern masterpiece about love, and figuring out when it's "the real thing." Brilliant and heartfelt.
Rating: 5