Том Стоппард — библиография

Пьеса (о чем предупреждает автор во вступлении) предполагает активное участие и присутствие на сцене симфонического оркестра. А действие происходит в психиатрической лечебнице для инакомыслящих в СССР. Пьеса посвящена Виктору Файнбергу и Владимиру Буковскому

Наступает 1900 год. Вена – столица империи, форпост искусства, психологии, математики, и – родной дом для большой семьи торговца тканями выкреста Германа Мерца. XX век сулит процветание австрийским евреям, доказавшим своё желание ассимилироваться с титульной нацией – ведь теперь они смогут выйти за границы еврейского квартала Леопольдштадт! Но радужные надежды Мерцев развеиваются довольно быстро: надвигается Первая мировая война, затем наступит Хрустальная ночь, Вторая мировая с ужасами Холокоста… Многие ли члены семьи выживут к финалу саги в 1955 году? От некоторых не сохранится даже имён. Но теперь оставшиеся в живых должны рассказать миру историю, которая всё ещё продолжается.

"Travesties" was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries – James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin – were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholly riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.

Rock ’n’ Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. When security forces tighten their grip on artistic expression, Jan is inexorably drawn toward a dangerous act of dissent. Back in England, Jan’s volcanic mentor, Max, faces a war of his own as his free-spirited daughter and his cancer-stricken wife attempt to break through his walls of academic and emotional obstinacy. Over the next twenty years of love, espionage, chance, and loss, the extraordinary lives of Jan and Max spin and intersect until an unexpected reunion forces them to see what is truly worth the fight.

Dirty Linen concerns the investigation of a Select Committee into the moral standards of the House of Commons - a somewhat unconventional investigation, rendered not less so by the presence of an ultra-sexy secretary whose clothes have a trick of whisking off in the hands of various members. Forms a double bill and contained in a volume with New-Found-Land.

Jumpers is a play by Tom Stoppard which was first performed in 1972. It explores and satirises the field of academic philosophy, likening it to a less-than skilful competitive gymnastics display. Jumpers raises questions such as "What do we know?" and "Where do values come from?" It is set in an alternative reality where some British astronauts have landed on the moon and "Radical Liberals" (read pragmatists and relativists) have taken over the British government (the play seems to suggest that pragmatists and relativists would be immoral (Archie says that murder is not wrong, merely "antisocial")). It was inspired by the notion that a manned moon landing would ruin the moon as a poetic trope and possibly lead to a collapse of moral values.