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Оглавление“On the Razzle puts [Stoppard’s] own distinctive spin on the farce … strewn with wordplays and verbal gymnastics, by turns brilliant and outrageously silly.”
—New York Times
“The play’s marriage of bristling intellectual wit and broad slapstick makes a curious, sometimes contradictory and always ingenious appeal to our highest and lowest natures—Oscar Wilde by way of ‘I Love Lucy.’”
—Los Angeles Times
Praise for Undiscovered Country
“A theatrical feast: a play that combines detailed psychology with a portrait of society … it’s a marvelous play because it pinpoints decadence with wit and irony.”
—Guardian (UK)
Praise for Rough Crossing
“Giddy with wordplay and dizzy with theatrical game-playing.”
—Boston Globe
“Adaptation in Stoppard’s terms means finding a sympathetic text and using it as a springboard for invention that leaves the original far behind … he weaves an increasingly amazing pattern of verbal misunderstandings, eccentric character development, showbiz spectacle, and sea-going hazards.”
—Times (UK)
“Accessible and ineffably charming … Radiant theater.”
—Chicago Tribune
Praise for Largo Desolato
“Largo Desolato in Tom Stoppard’s version emerges as a wonderfully comic and unself-pitying piece … A comic writer of genius.”
—Times (UK)
“A bitter comedy. It’s Athol Fugard at his bleakest and Kafka at his most horrifically absurd.”
—Newsday
