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1966 play by tom stoppard5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Stoppard's father remained behind and was later killed. Later, when the Japanese invaded Singapore, the family was again forced to flee. ![]() Born Thomas Straussler on Jin Zlin, Czechoslovakia, Stoppard and his family escaped to Singapore in 1939 after the Nazis invaded and began harassing Czech Jews. The Real Thing won Stoppard his second Tony in 1984, a play about a literary man whose love is unfaithful to him and how he copes with his disillusionment. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were spoken of, but never seen in Hamlet and Stoppard used the characters to explain the dramatic final hour of their lives. Using material for his plays through the works of other writers, Stoppard created the title characters for the play from William Shakespeare's Hamlet. and the Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle awards when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was produced in New York in 1968. He received the John Whiting Award in the U.K. Well known by international audiences for his two stage successes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) and The Real Thing (1982), Tom Stoppard is one of England's most important playwrights. ![]()
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