Tom Stoppard’s Charmed and Haunted Life

In its plain way, that is the most extraordinary sentence in Lee’s book, calmly illustrating the lengths to which people will go to put an end to chaos. The war was over; Major Stoppard was a British officer, to whom Marta had been introduced at the Mount Everest Hotel, when he was on leave in Darjeeling; he could supply her with peace.

And, lo, it came to pass. Along the way, there were halting attempts at fiction, including a frantic novel, “Lord Malquist and Mr Moon.” There were pseudonyms: in print, Stoppard signed himself “Brennus,” “William Boot”—the name is pinched from—and, briefly breaking cover, “Tomik Straussler.” There were plays for radio and television, some of them with “Boot” and “Moon” in the title. There was a first trip to New York, where he met Mel Brooks. There was a relocation to London.

Along the way, Lee steers us through each play, major or minor, with a sturdy account of the background, the plot, the production, the casting, the reviews, the transfers to other theatres, and the intellectual grist. Whether her readers will match her for stamina is open to debate, though you can’t predict what will catch your eye as the minutiae stream past.

Other sorrows embroil the plays. “Jumpers” revolves around a philosopher named Moore, and Stoppard duly prepared by studying Russell, Wittgenstein, G. E. Moore , and “the Vienna school of logical positivism,” but what we witness onstage, amid the folderol, is the sad sundering of a husband from his wife—the logical negativism to which love, like other attachments, is forever prone. Lee shrewdly notes that “Jumpers” opened two days after Stoppard’s divorce from his first wife, Jose Ingle.

‘Wrote’? He has a new play coming to Broadway this fall 🤔

And they are soooo smart ..we can not get it ?😂

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