Praise for The Real Thing
“In The Real Thing … [Stoppard] turns his attention to private passion—and he does so without mortgaging an intellect that has few equals in the contemporary theater.”
—New York Times
“Tom Stoppard is justly renowned for his erudition and wit, but in his 1980s drama The Real Thing he also found a (philandering) heartbeat.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Fidelity, love, fiction, passion, authenticity—these are just a few of the juicy issues running around Tom Stoppard’s masterful 1982 marital drama … The Real Thing is exceedingly well made, a keen and touching study of fidelity, fiction and marital love … Stoppard’s brainy love story melts our hearts.”
—Time Out New York
“A play that is at once tightly structured and expansive.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“This play[’s] … intellectual pyrotechnics are matched by its heart.”
—Hollywood Reporter
“[An] entertaining and engaging award-winning play.”
“[The Real Thing] is about both love and art, and it is wise, witty, and astonishing through and through … Enthralling.”
—Financial Times (UK)
“When it comes to putting erotic love in its place, no contemporary English playwright has done so with such illuminating rigour or eloquence as Tom Stoppard.”
—Evening Standard (UK)
“A heart-wrenching play … [and] poignant postmodern comedy.”
—Guardian (UK)