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Stoppard

[ stop-erd ]

noun

  1. Tom Thomas Straussler, born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.


Stoppard

/ ˈɒɑː /

noun

  1. StoppardSir Tom1937MBritishCzechWRITING: playwright Sir Tom, original name Thomas Straussler born 1937, British playwright, born in Czechoslovakia: his works include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967), Travesties (1974), Hapgood (1988), The Invention of Love (1997), and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2002)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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I liked them both being in the same town, like in Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties,” with all the historical figures.

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I kept imagining what playwright Tom Stoppard would do with this constellation of artists divided by a common utopian vision as their world goes up in flames.

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Photography student, Luke Stoppard, spotted one whale initially and spread the message on social media.

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A new staging presented by Bedlam makes a valiant effort to adapt Stoppard’s cerebral probes into chaos theory, Newtonian law, thermodynamics and metaphysics for a 2023 audience, but the result is a muddled one.

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But the work is blessedly free of the endless plot summaries that weigh down Hermione Lee’s biography of Tom Stoppard.

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