Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard’s most recent play, Leopoldstadt, opened at Wyndham's Theatre in 2020 and transferred to Broadway in 2022. It won multiple Awards, including an Olivier Award and Tony Award for Best Play. 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, Jumpers, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (a play for actors and orchestra written with André Previn), Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention Of Love, The Coast Of Utopia, Rock’n’Roll, Dogg’s Our Pett, New-Found Land, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth and The Hard Problem. Adaptations include Tango, Undiscovered Country, On The Razzle, Rough Crossing and Dalliance. Translations include The Seagull, Henry IV, Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, The House Of Bernarda Alba and Largo Desolato. He has written eight Evening Standard Award-winning plays and five of his plays have won Tony Awards.
Radio plays include Darkside (set to Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon), On ‘Dover Beach’, If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank, Albert’s Bridge (Italia Prize Winner), M Is For Moon Among Other Things, The Dissolution Of Dominic Boot, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending A Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died and In The Native State. Television adaptations include Parades End (BBC/HBO), A Walk On The Water (from Enter A Free Man), Three Men In A Boat and The Dog It Was That Died. Original television screenplays include Another Moon Called Earth, A Separate Peace, Neutral Ground, Teeth and Professional Foul, which won awards from BAFTA, the Broadcasting Press Guild and Squaring The Circle. He adapted his television dramatisation of Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat for BBC Radio.
Screenplays include Anna Karenina, Despair, The Romantic Englishwoman, The Human Factor, Brazil, Empire Of The Sun, The Russia House, Billy Bathgate, Poodle Springs, and Shakespeare In Love (with Marc Norman), which won him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, a Golden Globe and the Broadcast Film Critics and American Guild Awards for Best Screenplay 1998. He directed and wrote the screenplay for the film of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which won the Prix d’Or at the Venice Film Festival 1990 for Best Film.
Tom Stoppard is a CBE and was knighted in 1997.
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Indian Ink
Tom Stoppard
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Indian Ink
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 14m
"A celebration of the power of art and an elegy for its secrets." - London Sunday Times
"Moving and intelligent." - Guardian
"Charming." - Financial Times
"An evening of wry, romantic melancholia." - Evening Standard
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The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
Tom Stoppard
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The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
Short Play, Comedy / 2w, 4m
Following his success with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 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.
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Henry IV (Stoppard, trans.)
Tom Stoppard, Luigi Pirandello
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Henry IV (Stoppard, trans.)
Tom Stoppard ,Luigi Pirandello
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 9m
An Italian nobleman falls from his horse during a pageant. When he comes round, he believes he's the medieval German Emperor, King Henry IV. For twenty years he lives this illusion but today a plot is being hatched to shock him out of this 'madness' and into the twenty-first century. …
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The Boundary
Tom Stoppard, Clive Exton
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The Boundary
Tom Stoppard ,Clive Exton
Short Play, Comedy / 1w, 4m
Arriving at the library to continue work on his dictionary, Johnson is horrified to discover that the place has been ransacked. Originally produced for television, this one act play combines wit, wordplay and a touch of comic absurdity.
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Indian Ink
Tom Stoppard
Full-Length Play, ComedyIndian Ink
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 14m
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The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
Tom Stoppard
Short Play, ComedyThe Fifteen Minute Hamlet
Short Play, Comedy / 2w, 4m
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Henry IV (Stoppard, trans.)
Tom Stoppard, Luigi Pirandello
Full-Length Play, DramaHenry IV (Stoppard, trans.)
Tom Stoppard ,Luigi Pirandello
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 9m
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The Boundary
Tom Stoppard, Clive Exton
Short Play, ComedyThe Boundary
Tom Stoppard ,Clive Exton
Short Play, Comedy / 1w, 4m