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Tom Stoppard

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3 months ago

From Agatha Christie doing the dishes to the cancer surgeon inspired at the theatre, an idling brain suddenly seems able to join the dots

If you really want to solve a problem, try doing nothing about…

It must surely be an emotionally intense experience for her to be starring in the revival of a play by her former partner, Tom Stoppard, who sadly died just last month.

4 months ago

The writer’s former partner and her co-star Ruby Ashbourne Serkis describe the bittersweet nature of remounting his 90s play so soon after his death

• ‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppar…

Brian Cox on Tom Stoppard’s sensational Rock’n’Roll: ‘I looked through the curtain and saw Mick Jagger and Václav Havel’

The actor, who starred as a Marxist academic in the acclaimed 2006 play at the Royal Court, remembers an astonishing writer of ideas and elegance

By the time I was cast in Rock’n’Roll in 2006 I had be…

Two film-makers who worked with the late playwright recall a man of extraordinary wit, endless invention and innate elegance

I was utterly knocked out by the way Tom Stoppard’s mind worked, his brilli…

Carrie Cracknell, Nina Raine and Belarus Free Theatre’s Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin share memories of working with the playwright and ‘guardian angel’

Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin, co…

The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked…

Rufus Sewell, Christine Baranski, Susan Wokoma, Toby Jones and Harriet Walter share their unforgettable encounters with a theatrical giant

I worked with Tom when I was quite young, on Arcadia in 1993,…

The ongoing backlash against the chancellor over accusations she misled the public on the nation's economy dominates Sunday's papers.
Stoppard's writing, often philosophical or scientific but consistently funny, gave rise to the term Stoppardian.

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