Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard’s plays include The Hard Problem; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; The Real Inspector Hound; After Magritte; Jumpers; Dirty Linen; Dogg’s Hamlet; Cahoot’s Macbeth; Travesties; Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with André Previn); Night and Day; The Real Thing; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia; The Invention of Love; The Coast of Utopia and Rock’n’Roll.  

Translations and adaptations include Tango (Mrozek); Undiscovered Country (Schnitzler); On the Razzle (Nestroy); Rough Crossing (Molnar); Dalliance (Schnitzler); The Seagull; Ivanov and The Cherry Orchard (all Chekhov); Henry IV (Pirandello); The House of Bernarda Alba (Lorca) and Largo Desolato (Havel).

He has written eight Evening Standard award-winning plays and five of his plays have won Tony Awards.

Radio plays include Darkside (with Pink Floyd); If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank; Albert’s Bridge; Where Are They Now?; Artist Descending a Staircase; The Dog It Was That Died and In the Native State.
Television work includes Parade’s End and his original television play Professional Foul.
Screenplays include Despair; The Romantic Englishwoman; The Human Factor; Brazil; Empire of the Sun; The Russia House; Billy Bathgate; Poodle Springs; Shakespeare in Love (with Marc Norman) and Anna Karenina.
He directed and wrote the screenplay for the film of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.