The Real Inspector Hound

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: New York : Grove Press
ISBN: 9780394173139
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first string critic. As mists rise about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman.

The Real Inspector Hound

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573614675
Category : Critics
Languages : en
Pages : 44

After Magritte

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573620027
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Harris, his mother and his wife are a kooky trio. Enter the forceful inspector from Scotland Yard with his constable - which is strange, notes the wife, for she had ordered an ambulance. The officers proceed to place the three under arrest. It is not clear why; something about a parked car, a bunch of .22 caliber shells in the waste basket, and a robbery of the box office of a minstrel show. But Harris has an explanation: he had parked near an art gallery to let his mother see some paintings by Magritte in which her obsessional instrument, the tuba, figured grandly. But then it develops that there was no minstrel show at all, and the plot goes haywire. Performed in New York with The Real Inspector Hound.

Tom Stoppard

Author: Daniel Keith Jernigan
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786465328
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
Tom Stoppard is justly famous for his innovative theatrical techniques. Daniel Jernigan argues that while much of Tom Stoppard's early work (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Inspector Hound, for instance) is postmodern, the remainder of his career essentially tracks backward from there--becoming "late modernist" in the 1970s (Travesties) and fully modernist in the 80s and 90s (The Real Thing and Arcadia). This pattern also makes sense of Stoppard's recent and uncharacteristic foray into dramatic realism with The Coast of Utopia (2002) and Rock 'n' Roll (2006), at which point the playwright seems to embrace the more straightforward rhetorical advantages of literary realism.

Travesties

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802150899
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Satire on politics, literature and art. James Joyce, Lenin, and Dadaist Tristan Tzara come together in the memories of an obscure English diplomat (Henry Wilfred Carr) in Zürich. (Song and dance routines. Prologue, 2 acts, 5 men, 3 women, 2 interiors).

The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard

Author: Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645928
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard who also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.

The Invention of Love

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802135810
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Poetry, scholarship, and love are entwined in Tom Stoppard's new play about A.E. Housman, which "Variety" has called "vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit". "Stoppard is at the top of form. . . . "The Invention of Love" does not just make you think, it also makes you feel".--"Daily Telegraph".

A Separate Peace

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573625131
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 12

Book Description

The Fifteen Minute Hamlet

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Samuel French Limited
ISBN: 9780573025068
Category : Hamlet (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"... The author continues his association with Hamlet by taking the most famous and best loved lines from Shakespeare's play and condensing them into a hilarious thirteen minute version. This miraculous feat is followed by an encore which consists of a two-minute version of the play! The vast multitude of characters are played by six actors with hectic doubling, and the action takes place at a shortened version of Elshore Castle."--Publisher description.

The Hard Problem

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802190502
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Above all don’t use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. The Hard Problem is a tour de force, exploring fundamental questions of how we experience the world, as well as telling the moving story of a young woman whose struggle for understanding her own life and the lives of others leads her to question the deeply held beliefs of those around her. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at the Krohl Institute for Brain Science, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question. She and other researchers at the institute are grappling with what science calls the “hard problem”—if there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? What Hilary discovers puts her fundamentally at odds with her colleagues, who include her first mentor and one-time lover, Spike; her boss, Leo; and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry. Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one.