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Tom Stoppard: a brilliant dramatist who always raised the temperature of the room

by Michael Billington

The self-described 'bounced Czech' created cerebral works centred by a core of genuine emotion " and always understood the ways of our world All the best dramatists extend the frontiers of drama. Beckett and Pinter did it in their way. The achievement of Tom Stoppard was to take seemingly esoteric subjects " from chaos theory to moral philosophy and the mystery of consciousness " and turn them into witty, inventive a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 1:06pm on November 29, 2025