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Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL HonFBA (born Tomáš Sträussler, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. [1] He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays.
Apr 12, 2024 · Tom Stoppard (born July 3, 1937, Zlín, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose work is marked by verbal brilliance, ingenious action, and structural dexterity. Stoppard’s father was working in Singapore in the late 1930s.
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Feb 22, 2021 · Thereby hangs a tale. To say that Tom Stoppard was born in Zlín, in Moravia, is true, but it’s not the whole story. For Stoppard, stories are never whole. At his birth, on July 3, 1937, he was ...
May 27, 2023 · In the final scene of Tom Stoppard ’s latest play, Leopoldstadt, which follows generations of a Jewish family living in Vienna from the late 1800s through World War II and its aftermath, a stand ...
Sep 7, 2022 · When Stoppard landed in New York that year he was the toast of the town, as his biographer, Hermione Lee, writes in “Tom Stoppard: A Life.” Marlene Dietrich came to see his play; Walter ...
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Sir Tom Stoppard, orig. Tomas Straussler, (born July 3, 1937, Zlín, Czech.), Czech-born British playwright. After living in East Asia with his family during World War II, he moved to England and adopted his stepfather’s surname. His first play, A Walk on the Water, was televised in 1963, and he won fame with the absurdist Rosencrantz and ...
Oct 2, 2022 · Tom Stoppard Faces His Family’s Past. A conversation with the playwright about the long journey to “Leopoldstadt,” which has just come to Broadway. By Andrew Dickson. October 2, 2022 ...
