The Real Thing
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 17, 2000
Closed Aug 13, 2000
Opened Apr 17, 2000
Closed Aug 13, 2000
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David Leveaux directs this 2000 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's 1984 play. The production provides an intellectual story rife with unanticipated moments of emotion ranging from anger to desperation. The Real Thing is about marriage and writing, high art and pop culture, and truth and acting?both onstage and in real life. The play centers on Henry, a successful writer attempting to balance his professional and personal lives while finding the two blurring together more often than not. Stephen Dillane and Jennifer Ehle, both of whom received Tonys for their roles in this powerful play, star.
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Playwright Tom Stoppard has been getting a bum rap over the years. The conventional wisdom is that Stoppard enchants his audiences by stringing words in front of them like a hypnotist who slowly swings a watch on a chain, and that he isn't the man one thinks of when it comes to probing human feelings on the stage. According to many of his critics, it has only been with his more recent plays--such as Arcadia and The Invention of Love--that Stoppard has revealed a beating heart to match his churning mind.
David Leveaux's revival of The Real Thing, Stoppard's 1982 comedy-drama, refutes this idea. It proves not only that the playwright did infuse his earlier works with pulsing emotion, but t[...]