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The Real Thing

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 4m

Tom Stoppard

The Real Thing
by Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard's brilliant, award-winning play of surprise and deftly witty comparison was premiíÂred at London's Strand Theatre in 1982 starring Roger Rees and Felicity Kendal and revived in 1999. Henry is a successful playwright married to Charlotte …

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Tom Stoppard's brilliant, award-winning play of surprise and deftly witty comparison was premiíÂred at London's Strand Theatre in 1982 starring Roger Rees and Felicity Kendal and revived in 1999. Henry is a successful playwright married to Charlotte who has the lead role in his latest play about adultery. Her co-star, Max, is married to another actress, Annie, and Annie and Henry are madly in love but is it any more real than the'subjects of Henry's play?
M4 (20s, 40s) F3 (17, 30s)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting Various interior settings

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Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard’s most recent play, The Hard Problem, opened at the National Theatre in 2015. He wrote his first play, Enter a Free Man, whilst working as a journalist in Bristol. His plays include Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, ...

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