How To Use Stoppard In A Sentence
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I saw the 2005 Off-Broadway premiere, and while it had a starrier cast, this revival wrings as much laughter out of Mr. Moses 'one-two jokes, many of which suggest Abbott and Costello rewritten by Tom Stoppard.
Greasepaint Under the Redwoods
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And then he went and had an affair with the totally untalented KATE CAPSHAW who remains Mrs. Spielberg to this day, leaving Amy to star in films like "Yentl" and to show up at Tom Stoppard's plays wearing gold muu-muus with gold sandals, looking like a kind of blinged-out Hare Krishna?
Worshiping the Golden Caftan
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Stoppard further underlines the tension between perception and reality by riffing on Hamlet's ‘play within a play’ that catches the conscience of the king.
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Stoppard uses a dazzling range of literary and theatrical effects, from Wildean epigram to a scene written entirely in limericks, from a suggestion of strip-tease to a lecture on Marxist theory.
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Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, which specializes in brainy, challenging scripts, is doing a real service to the republic of letters by producing "Night and Day," the most obscure of Tom Stoppard's major plays.
This Stoppard Is a Second 'Scoop'
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Stoppard had to recast four of the principal roles.
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'Shakespeare in Love' (1998) The Earl of Oxford may have written this too, but Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard got screen credit for what is, by unanimous agreement among Shakespearean scholars, a totally fictional account of how a Bard with writer's block sought help from a shrink (who timed patients' sessions with an hourglass) and churned out "Romeo and Juliet" only after discovering his muse in a dishy, brainy aristocrat named Lady Viola.
'Like Crazy': From Cupid's Blunders, Wonders
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For all his brilliance as the theater's foremost prestidigitator of language and thought, Stoppard is a conservative who, like Einstein himself, resists the idea that chance is the "" mother '' of reality.
What Happens When Spies Collide
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Although some of the Stoppardian battle lines in Jumpers are not as clear as they will later become, they are already clear enough to be unmistakeable.
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It is based on a play by Tom Stoppard, who has also directed and co-produced it.
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I took heart from an interview with Thomas Stoppard where somebody said to him, ‘You're such a polymath,’ and he said, ‘Yes, for about three months.’
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English drama has enjoyed a rebirth since the 1950s with writers like John Osborne, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
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Northam's acid comments aside, however, Stoppard falls short of his Shakespeare In Love triumph, while John Barry's soundtrack merely ticks over.
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Also present are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the king's unfortunately clueless lackeys and subjects of Tom Stoppard's work Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
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The uncertainty of this utterance is indicated strongly in Stoppard's stage directions.
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Tom Stoppard is often characterized as a dramatist who mixes intimidating cleverness with extravagant showmanship, but in
Evening Standard - Home
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Tom Stoppard's 1982 play is a millefeuille meditation on authenticity.
The Real Thing; The Concise Dictionary of Dress
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Stoppard, meanwhile, remained at the top of his profession.
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*** And, when one reads Berlin's qualified praise of Herzen, it's easy to see how he became central to Stoppard's three plays: "Herzen does at least face genuine political problems, such as the incompatibility of unlimited personal liberty with either social equality, or the minimum of social organization and authority; the need to sail precariously between the Scylla of individualist 'atomization' and the Charybdis of collectivist oppression; the sad disparity and conflict between many, equally noble human ideals; the nonexistence of 'objective,' eternal, universal moral and political standards, to justify either coercion or resistance to it; the mirage of distant ends, and the impossibility of doing wholly without them.
Stinky Inky, Part VI: Carlin Romano's April Fools' Joke on His Philadelphia Inquirer Readers
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Think Tom Stoppard's Jumpers meets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and you have a taste of this smart-arse evening, in which Davalos doesn't just wear his learning on his sleeve but plasters it all over the stage.
Wittenberg – review
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Nadel is excellent at providing an exposition of Stoppard's ideas and the wider social context in which he lives.
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Ed Stoppard makes Harry a benevolent rake who throws himself at the absurdly coquettish widow for the sake of her £50,000.
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The play contains a number of typical Stoppard set pieces.
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In Stoppard's poignant and witty memory play, the poet lies on his deathbed remembering and misremembering his emotional and scholarly life.
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But then again, Tom Stoppard (who cowrote the film with Terry Gilliam) always seemed to prefer paronomasia to his fellow men anyway.
Joshua David Stein: WALL-E and The Fall of Man
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Upstairs that means the baffled diplomat Sir Hallam (Ed Stoppard), his striving wife Lady Agnes (Keeley Hawes) and a scene-stealing Eileen Atkins as Sir Hallam's mother Maud, who has just returned from abroad with a monkey that applauds her when she wakes each morning and a turbaned Sikh secretary (Art Malik).
Servants, Swords and Sad Sex
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Somehow this reminds me of one of the incredibly well-constructed bits of dialogic chaos in a Tom Stoppard play like ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’.
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Time and time again, Stoppard's script returns to the nature of identity and how we understand the world.
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Audiences, heads aswim with new names and dates, might note with surprise how little light the 12-hour day has shed on Stoppard's political views.
