BBC Radio have recently released a bunch of plays by #TomStoppard, so I've been listening to them.

He's clearly a big #PinkFloyd fan -- one of them (Darkside) is basically set to Dark Side of the Moon as a soundtrack. The whole thing. In order.

The one I'm listening to right now has Syd Barrett as an important (but off-stage) character.

This realisation makes it now less surprising that the intro to the film of Rosencrantz and Guildensterm is set to "Seamus" from Meddle...

#TomStoppard #RadioDrama

Celebrating Stoppard: Albert's Bridge
Spotlight

Tom Stoppard's Albert's Bridge is part of Radio 4's Celebrating Stoppard collection.

This is a 1988 production of the play first broadcast in 1967, the year Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened at the National Theatre.

Albert is a philosophy graduate who turns the painting of a vast railway bridge into a comic, quixotic search for meaning. Up on the ironwork, suspended above a world that looks reassuringly like a model railway set, he has found something rare: perspective. The only question is how long it can last.

Funny, strange and with serious foundations worn lightly, Albert's Bridge won the Prix Italia and an award at the International Radio Play Festival in Prague.

Albert ..... Paul Copley
Kate ..... Diane Bull
Fraser ..... Geoffrey Matthews
Chairman ..... George A Cooper
Fitch ..... Peter Baldwin
Dave ..... Richard Tate
George ..... John Sampson
Mother ..... Eva Stuart
Father ..... Alan Dudley
Painters ..... Norman Bird & Stephen Rashbrook

Director: David Hitchinson

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tpbc

Strong revival of Arcadia: past scenes gripping, present-day strand less urgent. I felt I followed all the theory as I watched, yet somehow left the theatre with most of it vanished from my head. A confident, thoughtful staging.

#tomstoppard #arcadia #theatre #theatrereview #london

Vaclav Havel's "Largo Desolato", about a dissident writer waiting for the inevitable knock on the door. #FMurrayAbraham stars; translation by #TomStoppard; directed by #JiriZizka for Thirteen / WNET, broadcast on PBS' "Great Performances" 4/20/1990.

#VHSRescues

https://youtu.be/a1Gyz4sx01s

'I'm an 88-year-old widow and I'm fascinated with sex - age is no reason to stop'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/sex-relationships/doctor-sex-advice-older-ages-36513250

“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind.
The procession is very long and life is very short.”

Tom Stoppard
“Arcadia”
What a wonderful play!
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