Blogs about: Tom Stoppard

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Existential & Absurd.

Amanda wrote 4 hours ago: We only know what we’re told, and that’s little enough. And for all we know it isn … more →

Tags: Perception, Philosophical Underpinnings, existentialism, hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare, The Absurd

Margaret Thatcher, Tom Stoppard... and Jean Chretien?

corsullivan wrote 9 hours ago: Earlier this week a Canadian was admitted to one of the most exclusive clubs in the world, when the … more →

Tags: Canada's World, Denis Rooke, Europe, gordon brown, iraq, Jean Chretien, Margaret Thatcher, Monarchy, Nelson Mandela

Review: Victory Garden’s “Blackbird”

Scotty Zacher wrote 10 hours ago:   Blackbird a play by David Harrower Reviewed by Timothy McGuire The much anticipated dramatic play … more →

Tags: 2009, Drama, timothy mcguire, Victory Gardens, Andre Pluess, Christine Barnes, Christine Pascual, David Harrower, Dean Taucher

Tom

lissytryphena wrote 1 week ago: “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our pro … more →

Tags: Pearls of Wisdom, Quotes, Quote

ARCADIA: Stoppard's supreme achievement

markmeynell wrote 2 weeks ago: Having been with Rachel to see the recent London revival of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia a couple of … more →

Tags: Beauty, general arts, Genius, Poetry, theatre, WorDs

Shadow Bridge & Lord Tophet by Gregory Frost

David Marshall wrote 2 weeks ago: As I sit here, peering uncertainly out of my window at a night sky polluted by light, there is nothi … more →

Tags: Review, Fantasy, Magic, Shadow Bridge, Lord Tophet, Gregory Frost, metafiction, the dresser, Ronald-Harwood

Review — The Cherry Orchard, Old Vic, June 2009

markronan wrote 3 weeks ago: This, the last of Chekhov’s plays, was presented more as comedy than tragedy in Sam Mendes … more →

Tags: 2009, May-Aug, theatre, Chekhov, Cherry orchard, Ethan Hawke, Morven Christie, Old Vic, Paul Jesson

Freedom vs. Central Planning4 comments

Blackadder wrote 3 weeks ago: I recently read Tom Stoppard’s play Rock ‘N’ Roll, which is about the dissident mo … more →

Tags: central planning, Freedom

oh won't you work work work2 comments

lissytryphena wrote 3 weeks ago: Just finished a good just over three hours work! All on my wonderful production coming up on the 5th … more →

Tags: Thespian Life, Acting, Characters, Kid's Stuff, Plays, raymond cousse, Research, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, stanislavski

τέλος (Johannes Constantus)1 comment

landonrordam wrote 4 weeks ago: “The story of Abraham contains, then, a teleological suspension of the ethical.  As the single … more →

Tags: Johannes Constantus, Kierkegaard, Abraham, existentialism, Fear and Trembling, Philosophy, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Sören Kierkegaard, stoppard

I have to be an actor.

marjorie wrote 1 month ago: Late notice: I’m reading the part of Tatiana tonight for VOYAGE, Part 1 of the massive trilog … more →

Tags: event, theatre, Acting, CanStage, Reading, tatiana, The Coast of Utopia, Voyage

Happy Bloomsday! and Word #1

thephilologist wrote 1 month ago: Happy Bloomsday! What is Bloomsday?  Why is it on the 16th June?  These are questions that I, having … more →

Tags: WorDs, Personal, General, theatre, Word, Bloomsday, James Joyce, Ulysses, Gregorian

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. –Tom Stoppard 3 comments

susannahsunshine wrote 1 month ago: I was four years old the first time I saw a movie in theaters. My older cousins took my two year old … more →

Tags: Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Childhood, Disney, George Eliot, Green Gables, Imagination, Magic, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, Peter Pan

Arcadia, Duke of York's Theatre, June 2009

markronan wrote 1 month ago: This Tom Stoppard play cleverly juxtaposes the modern world of literary scholarship and mathematics … more →

Tags: 2009, May-Aug, theatre, arcadia, Dan Stevens, David Levaux, Duke of York's Theatre, Ed Stoppard, hildegard bechtler

The Grand Tour

A. wrote 1 month ago: “..English landscape was invented by the gardeners imitating foreign painters who were invoki … more →

Tags: Blog, landscape, Quote, English, arcadia, Play

False Dichotomies4 comments

Gregory wrote 1 month ago: Nessie has a great post about The Romanticism of Religion that got me thinking, especially given my … more →

Tags: Atheism, Religion, Science, Art, Fantasy, Science Fiction, romanticism, Classicism, arcadia

Arcadia - Duke of York

jtwn wrote 1 month ago: Arcadia 2009 poster I had a chance to see a preview matinee of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia yesterda … more →

Tags: theatre, arcadia, Samantha Bond, Neil Pearson, Dan Stevens, David Leveaux, Duke of York's, byron

Duke of York's: Arcadia.

betweencastles wrote 1 month ago: I saw a few days ago in The Independent that Johann Hari had declared Arcadia to be the greatest pl … more →

Tags: Travels, Harry Potter, London, Plays, theatre

Stoppard the Press!

thephilologist wrote 1 month ago: I just finished reading Conversations with Stoppard by Mel Gussow.  That would be Tom Stoppard he … more →

Tags: Personal, General, book, Reading, Cigarettes, smoking, Sydney Theatre Company, Travesties, Pest