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Title	:	The Real Thing
Author	:	Tom Stoppard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	April 17th 2000 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Fiction. Theatre

The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 3765 Users | 163 Reviews

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The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen in love. But is it the real thing?

In The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard combines his characteristically brilliant wordplay and wit with flashes of insight that illuminate the nature--and the mystery--of love, creating a multi-toned play that challenges the mind while searching out the innermost secrets of the heart.

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Original Title:	The Real Thing
ISBN:	0571125298 (ISBN13: 9780571125296)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Max, Charlotte, Henry, Annie, Billy, Debbie, Brodie
Setting:	United Kingdom

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As per usual with Stoppard, surprisingly hilarious for something so thoughtful, and surprisingly thoughtful for something hilarious. The kind of theatre that seems to love the stage it plays on.

Review: The Real Thing, Night and Day, Travesties by Tom Stoppard I recently hear a technically brilliant, world famous organist and composer play one of his more difficult works. As I expected, it was technically brilliant, and arid. It recalled many technically brilliant works for the piano written during, principally, the Romantic period: brilliant, but arid. Spoiler alert: if technical brilliance is your touchstone in valuing music and drama, skip this review. Henry : Or perhaps Id realize

A creative look at the evolution of love in a couples' relationship.I love you so use me. Be indulgent, negligent, preoccupied, premenstrual... your credit is infinite. I'm yours, I'm committed.It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst. Is that romantic? Well, good. Everything should be romantic. Love, work, music, literature, virginity, loss of virginity...

I'm not all that familiar with Stoppard's stuff (I saw and loved Arcadia a few years ago), but I'll certainly be reading more. The Real Thing is all about love, and it tackles it with an intelligence, wit, and depth that I've rarely come across. The titular "real thing" is hard to pin down; there are a couple of plays within this play and all the characters are professional actors/writers who are constantly mixing their profession with their personal lives by constantly acting. This doesn't make

What does The Real Thing mean to you?This is a play-within-a-play and slightly confusing for the reader. Which parts are the play and which reflect the real lives of the characters? I think that seeing it performed on stage will make that clearer.The opening scene shows Max building a house of cards, which promptly crumples to the floor when a door is opened. Quite apt as the play is about relationships. The building and demolition of them.Love, infidelity and all the bits in between are the

Early Stoppard is not the best Stoppard, but this is very solid and witty work given a great performance in this audio version.

This play about fidelity and infidelity may be self serving, if Stoppard's private life is considered, but that doesn't stop it being sharp, clever, acid, insightful, witty, elegant, highly structured, and all the things that seem to be his hallmark.The structure is tricksy but so smoothly done as to be invisible without looking for it. Some of the diversions are brilliant - the cricket bat, though others less so - digital watches. Overall this is more accessible than other Stoppard plays in