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The Real Thing review " Tom Stoppard's gem still shines by Arifa Akbar

Old Vic, LondonPassion and art are dissected in tricksy style in a production that manages to wrongfoot the audience There are several circularities drawn around what is real and what is part of a fiction in Tom Stoppard's 1982 play about love and the art of playwriting. They come right from the off, in an opening scene with a husband discovering a wife's affair. The cuckold is in fact an actor, Max (Oliver Johnstone…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM on September 4, 2024

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