From Review of Bio of Tom Stoppard in SF Chronicle by David Kipen--9/1/02

[Zack Handlen]

Hi- I'm a newbie, and normally wouldn't be posting so soon, but I just wanted
to say, "Arcadia" is a terrific play. I've never seen it performed, but I've
read it and found it to be a deeply moving and wonderfully intelligent piece of
work. Very sad, too, and some of the wittiest lines in modern playwriting. If
you have a chance, you should check it out. Also, "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Are Dead" and "Hapgood" both deal on similar themes, and are worth a read if
you can't see them live. ("Hapgood" is a spy story that deals with quantum
mechanics [the fact that it's impossible to know both the position and relative
speed of a particle at the same time is important to the play], and "R & G Are
Dead" is like Monty Python doing Beckett.)

Zack


> It goes on that way. I've never seen a Stoppard-play but they seem to be
> good.
>
> Otto
>
> >
> > In a message dated 9/3/02 3:31:16 PM, r.romeo at atlanticphilanthropies.org
> > writes:
> >
> > << "Stoppard's plays and screenplays excite a particular brand of
> >
> > anticipation. Several great writers pump out masterpieces at regular
> >
> > intervals without generating the kind of possessive, fanatical
> >
> > expectancy a new Stoppard does. As with Thomas Pynchon --  >>
> >
> > Is this true:
> >
> > http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/mf115.html
>
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