directed by blanka zizka
STOPPARD
TOM STOPPARD wrote his first play, Enter a Free Man, while working as a journalist in Bristol. He was introduced to American audiences in 1967 with the Broadway hit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which was followed by The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, Travesties, Dirty Linen, New-Found-Land, Night and Day and Arcadia. His off-Broadway productions include Enter a Free Man and the double bill of Dogg's Hamlet and Cahoot's Macbeth. For television, Stoppard's work includes the highly-acclaimed adaptation of the 1889 British novel by Jerome K. Jerome called Three Men in a Boat, seen on American public television in 1979. Professional Foul, a play he wrote for television, has won awards from BAFTA and the Broadcasting Press Guild. His radio plays include 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 and Artist Descending a Staircase. Tom Stoppard has written screenplays for the films Despair, The Romantic Englishwoman, The Human Factor, Brazil, Empire of the Sun, The Russia House, Billy Bathgate and received the Academy Award for his screenplay of Shakespeare In Love. He directed and wrote the screenplay for the film version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead which won the Prix d'Or at the Venice Film Festival 1990 for Best Film.
FEATURES & INTERVIEWS
The Real Thing returns to Broadway, March 2000: official website
Philadelphia Magazine, February 2000: interview
Jewish Exponent, February 3, 2000: article
Philadelphia City Paper, January 27, 2000: interview
Wilma Theater Symposium Transcript, December 4, 1999: interview
Tom Stoppard works with Wilma co-Artistic Director Blanka Zizka
on some script revisions for the Wilma's East Coast premiere
