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Tom Stoppard Drama Full Length APPLY FOR RIGHTS: Click here to request a license for this play. THE STORY: In 1972, an elderly avant-garde artist is murdered, leaving his two friends suspicious of each other. To reveal the origin of their distrust, successive scenes move through the past to the 1920s and then progress back to 1972. Each of the three men was infatuated with Sophie. Before she tragically went blind, she fell in l...
based on Arthur Schnitzler's play Liebelei, adapted by Tom Stoppard, from a literal translation by Anthony Vivis Comedy Full Length 6 men, 4 women (10 total) APPLY FOR RIGHTS: Click here to request a license for this play. THE STORY: This version of Schnitzler's Lorelei that caused a scandal when first produced in Vienna in 1895, focuses on how the sexual mores of a society are indicative of the whole social fabric. Dalliance is a bitter sweet drama about a young working class girl who falls in love with a military officer. She alone has ...
Tom Stoppard Spy Drama Full Length 8 men, 1 woman (9 total) APPLY FOR RIGHTS: Click here to request a license for this play. THE STORY: Does light come in waves or particles? Experiments will show either; the experimenter can choose. "A double agent is like a trick of the light," Kerner the physicist tells Blair the spycatcher. "You get what you interrogate for." Dual natures, of light and of people, are the theme of Tom Stoppard's espionage thriller. Kern...
Tom Stoppard Drama Full Length 4 men, 4 women, 1 child (9 total) Hilary, a young psychology researcher at the Krohl Institute for Brain Science, is nursing a private sorrow. She needs a miracle and prays daily for deliverance from a secret regret. Meanwhile, she and the other researchers at the institute are grappling with the troubling “hard problem,” which asks: If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? For Hilary, the possibility of genuine human altruism, without a hidden Darwinian self-interest, depends on the answer....	$13.00 Qty:
Tom Stoppard Drama Full Length 14 men, 12 women, 5 boys, 4 girls (doubling, flexible casting) (35 total) Winner of the 2023 Tony Award® for Best Play. THE STORY: Spanning fifty years and multiple generations, LEOPOLDSTADT follows a family’s reckoning with a past it cannot escape and a future it cannot control. A passionate drama of love and endurance beginning in the last days of 1899 through the heart of the twentieth century, Stoppard’s customary wit and beauty shines through the enduring spirit of a family tested to its most extreme limits....	$14.00 Qty:
Tom Stoppard Satire Full Length 7 men, 1 woman (8 total) In the fictional, copper-rich African nation of Kambawe, corruption, ethical malpractice, and marital infidelity are abound. And the press intends to report on it. When Dick Wagner of the Sunday Globe and a competing freelance journalist arrive at the jungle home of a white mine owner, they are soon competing for the use of their host’s telex, the attentions of his wife, and a possible interview with the missing president of Kambawe....	$13.00 Qty:
Tom Stoppard Farce Full Length 13 men, 9 women, 1 boy (23 total) adapted from Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy THE STORY: Two naughty grocer’s assistants go on a wild spree to Vienna when their master skips town with his new mistress. A free adaptation of the nineteenth-century farce by Johann Nestroy, ON THE RAZZLE is a boisterous reimagination of a classic....	$13.00 Qty:
Tom Stoppard Farce/Mystery/Thriller Short Play 6 men, 3 women (9 total) APPLY FOR RIGHTS: Click here to request a license for this play. THE STORY: Moon and Birdboot, two drama critics, arrive to watch the performance of a new detective play, a parody of the conventional stage thriller. However the private lives of the critics become inextricably mixed with those of the play's characters until Moon is shot dead and the real Inspector Hound proves to be...?...
Tom Stoppard Comedy Full Length 4 men, 3 women (7 total) Winner of the 1984 Tony Award® for Best Play. THE STORY: Henry is a successful playwright married to Charlotte, who has the lead role in his latest play about adultery. Her co-star, Max, is married to another actress, Annie, and Annie and Henry are madly in love. As Henry navigates his personal and creative passions, the line between truth and fiction is blurred in this devastating portrait of love, performance, and the “real thing.”...	$13.00 Qty:
Tom Stoppard Drama Full Length APPLY FOR RIGHTS: Click here to request a license for this play. THE STORY: 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 Czechosl...
Tom Stoppard Tragicomedy Full Length 14 men, 2 women (16 total) Winner of the 1968 Tony Award® for Best Play. THE STORY: Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of ...	$14.00 Qty: