Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.

Setting: London in 1982

Act I



In the first scene the coldly witty Max correctly accuses his distant and travelling wife, Charlotte, of infidelity. She leaves embarrassed and angry.



The second scene appears to follow directly after the first, but Charlotte's personality has changed completely, and she is now married to a playwright named Henry. Gradually the audience realises that Charlotte is an actress, and the first scene was her performance in a play that Henry, her husband, wrote. She is unhappy with the play, believing that Henry gives short shrift to the female character in order to show off his own wit through the mouth of Max.



Max and his wife Annie drop by for a visit to Charlotte and Henry. Without the benefit of Henry's dialogue, Max turns out to be a likeable but negligible fellow, and Annie is, according to the script, "very much like the woman Charlotte has ceased to be." Annie is a devoted activist on behalf of an imprisoned vandal, Brodie, and Henry mocks her as a sentimental do-gooder, giving offence to Max. But when Annie and Henry are left alone, it's revealed that their fight was also a performance: they are having an affair, and she agrees to meet him later on the pretext of visiting Brodie in prison.



Max discovers the affair, and Annie leaves him to be with Henry. Soon, Henry is reduced to writing television scripts in order to pay alimony to Charlotte. He struggles to write a play about his love for Annie, but finds it difficult to find the right language to express sincere emotion: he is more comfortable with comedy.

Act II



Two years later, Henry's play about Annie remains unwritten. Annie asks him to ghost-write a play by the prisoner Brodie, whom she continues to visit. Brodie's incoherent anarchist politics, anti-intellectualism , and lack of ability for writing are the antithesis of everything Henry values. Annie discounts this in favour of the intention behind the writing. Henry defends the importance of beauty in language and skill in writing using an analogy with a cricket bat: good writing is like hitting a ball with a cricket bat (ie something that has been carefully designed to hit balls in the best manner possible); bad writing is like hitting it with a plank of wood (ie, something that has the same composition as a cricket bat, and bears it some resemblance, but is ultimately random and inferior).



When Annie is cast in a production of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore in Glasgow, she must be away from Henry for some time, and Henry visits Charlotte and their daughter Debbie. The teenage Debbie declares that monogamy is a thing of the past, a form of colonisation. Henry gently cautions the girl against his own vice of making clever phrases for their own sake, but he is shaken by her cynicism nevertheless. For her part, Charlotte breezily admits to multiple affairs during their marriage, and tells him that his affair with Annie only caused trouble because he treated it romantically instead of as a source of fun.



Henry returns home in a frenzy of jealousy and ransacks his and Annie's apartment searching for evidence of infidelity. His confrontation with Annie echoes the scene from the play he wrote that was performed in the first act of The Real Thing , but Annie has more to say than his imaginary wife did. She admits that she is having an affair with her young co-star Billy, but refuses to either give Billy up or leave Henry: both romances have a moral claim on her, and Henry will just have to accept it. With pain, he does.



As if their relationship were not under enough strain, Brodie is released from prison and stops by for a visit. He turns out to be a prize oaf, with all of Henry's arrogance and elitism, but none of the genuine skill or eloquence to back it up. At last, Annie pushes a bowl of dip in his face and throws him out of the house, and peace between her and Henry is restored. The play ends with a phone call from Max, who tells Henry that he has become engaged.

The Coast of Utopia is a 2002 trilogy of plays: Voyage , Shipwreck , and Salvage , written by Tom Stoppard with focus on the philosophical debates in pre-revolution Russia between 1833 and 1866. It was the recipient of the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play . The title comes from a chapter in Avrahm Yarmolinsky 's book Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism (1959).

The trilogy, nine hours in total, premiered with Voyage on 22 June 2002 at the National Theatre's Olivier auditorium in repertory, directed by Trevor Nunn . The openings of Shipwreck and Salvage followed on 8 July, and 19 July, completing its run on 23 November 2002. In 2006, directed by Jack O'Brien , the plays debuted on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center , New York City , where it closed on May 13, 2007 after a combined total of 124 performances.

The trilogy has also been performed in Russia; it opened at Moscow 's Russian Academic Youth Theatre in October 2007, directed by Alexey Borodin.

The trilogy received its Japanese premiere at Theater Cocoon, Bunkamura in Tokyo on 12 September 2009 and completed its run (including 10 one-day marathon performances) on 4 October 2009. The production was directed by Yukio Ninagawa .

Tomo Stoppardo – vieno svarbiausių šiuolaikinio teatro dramaturgų, absurdo teatro apologeto – pjesė „Rozenkrancas ir Gildensternas mirę“ („Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead“) pirmą kartą buvo suvaidinta 1967-ųjų balandį Londone, „The Old Vic“ teatre. Tuomet T. Stoppardas buvo mažai kam žinomas pradedantis dramaturgas, teatro kritikas. Dramaturgo valia pjesėje du kuklūs Williamo Shakespeareʼo pjesės „Hamletas“ personažai Rozenkrancas ir Gildensternas, arba žmonės, laiku nepasakę „ne“, tapo šiuolaikinės dramaturgijos ir mūsų laikų herojais.

Visiems žinomas klasikinis W. Shakespeareʼo siužetas pjesėje meistriškai apžaidžiamas: Danijos princo Hamleto vaikystės ir studijų Vokietijos universitete draugus Rozenkrancą ir Gildensterną Hamleto tėvo žudikas karalius Klaudijus pasikviečia palydėti princą į Angliją. Karalius įteikia jiems slaptą laišką, kuriame prašoma nukirsti galvą teisėtam karūnos įpėdiniui. Rozenkrancas ir Gildensternas Hamletą lydi į neabejotiną mirtį, tačiau princui sėkmingai apkeitus laišką patys patenka į likimo pinkles.

Šiuolaikinės dramaturgijos tyrinėtojai akcentuoja, kad pjesėje „Rozenkrancas ir Gildensternas mirę“ sąmojingai sulydyta klasikinė šekspyriškoji dramaturgija ir beketiški literatūriniai eksperimentai, absurdo estetika, o intelektualūs galvosūkiai, virtuoziškas žodžių žaismas – su angliška ironija.

Režisierius Jurijus Butusovas teigia ypač vertinantis šios jau klasikine vadinamos pjesės poetiškumą ir klasikinės absurdo stilistikos diktuojamas galimybes. „Rozenkrancas ir Gildensternas mirę“ labai taikliai pataiko į šių dienų kontekstą, skaudulius ir turėtų priminti žiūrovams prarastąjį rojų, žmogiškos pilnatvės, harmonijos, laimės neįmanomybę. Teatro teatre iliuziją J. Butusovo spektaklyje atskleis ir sustiprins lakoniška, netikėtomis medžiagomis ir tekstūromis išsiskirianti spektaklio dailininko Mariaus Nekrošiaus kuriama scenografija bei kostiumai. Ši pjesė Lietuvos teatre statoma pirmąjį kartą.

The play's setting is primarily Zürich , Switzerland during the First World War. Three important personalities were living in Zürich at that time: the modernist author James Joyce , the communist revolutionary Lenin , and the founder of Dada , Tristan Tzara . In the play the less notable English consular official Henry Carr, who is likewise a real person and was similarly in Zürich, recalls his perceptions and his experiences with these influential figures. As he reminisces Carr's memory becomes prone to distraction, and instead of predictable historical biography these characters are interpreted through the maze of his mind.

Carr's memories are couched in a Zürich production of Oscar Wilde 's play The Importance of Being Earnest in which he had a starring role. Stoppard uses this production and Carr's mixed feelings surrounding it as a framework to explore art, the war and revolution. Situations from Earnest feature prominently within the action. The characters in Travesties also include versions of two from Earnest , Gwendolen and Cecily, and the comedic situations of many of the other roles are shared by other characters. Stoppard uses many theatrical devices within the play, including puns , limericks , and an extended parody of the vaudeville song " Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean ".

The real Carr did play Algernon with a group of actors called The English Players, for whom the real James Joyce was the business manager. Carr and Joyce had an angry disagreement after the play, which led to legal action and accusations of slander by Joyce. The dispute was settled with the judge deciding in favour of both disputants on different counts. Joyce later parodied Carr, and the English Consul General in Zürich at that time, A. Percy Bennett, as two minor characters in Ulysses , with Carr being portrayed as a drunken, obscene soldier in the "Circe" episode.

After the first performance of Travesties Stoppard received a letter from the real Henry Carr's widow, expressing her surprise that her late husband had found himself imagined as a character in Stoppard's play.

The play begins with A. E. Housman, dead at age 77, standing on the bank of the river Styx. Dreaming that he is boarding his boat for the afterlife – captained by a petulant Charon – Housman begins to remember moments from his life, starting with his matriculation to Oxford University, where he studied Classics. The play unfolds as a collection of short scenes that trace, primarily, Housman's relationship with Moses Jackson, the man for whom Housman harboured a lifelong, unrequited love. The scenes also explore the late-Victorian artistic ideals as well as Housman's intellectual growth into a preeminent Latin textual scholar. Throughout the play, the older Housman comments on and occasionally talks to the characters on stage, including his younger self.

《乌托帮彼岸》由《航行》、《失事》、《获救》组成，描写了十九世纪激荡在俄罗斯乃至整个欧洲上空的革命风云。全剧时间绵延，从1833年直到1868年，场景辽阔，莫斯科、巴黎、德累斯顿、尼斯、伦敦、日内瓦等名城相继展现；人物众多，巴枯宁，赫尔岑、别林斯墓、屠格涅夫、车尔尼雪夫斯基、卢格、科苏特、琼斯、马克斯托帕善于让天平两边取得平衡，让我们在革命的悲剧中，看到勇敢、正直、慷慨等等人性的闪光点；在人生的悲剧中，看到亲情、爱情和友情的温暖美好。他把严肃的历史写得诙谐有趣，把沉重的思想表述得富含诗意。

斯托帕的剧作思想与娱乐并重，在荒诞闹剧和浪漫情事下掩藏着人生的悲凉况味。他也许很愿意成为典型的王尔德剧中人物：用玩世不恭来表达真诚和严肃。斯托帕丰富了二十世纪六十年代以后直至今日的戏剧时代，用他的巧智，他的深厚，他的华彩词章，还有他的魔术般多变的戏剧手段。

Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness?

This is ‘the hard problem’ which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike, her boss Leo and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry.

Is the day coming when the computer and the fMRI scanner will answer all the questions psychology can ask?

Meanwhile Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one.

丹麦王子哈姆雷特的父亲意外死亡，母亲嫁给了他的叔叔——新的国王，哈姆雷特认定是新国王杀父夺母篡取王位，便假装疯癫伺机复仇，一场明争暗斗在宫廷展开。
两个小人物：罗森格兰兹和吉尔登斯吞，被国王召见，他们被委派护送哈姆雷特到英国去。这两个蒙在鼓里的人从一开始就一直在扔钱币打赌、无聊可笑地探讨人生和他们所处的世界、好奇地窥探宫廷里那些他们不明白的秘密，完全没有想到他们是在执行国王企图杀死王子的密谋，更没有意识到命运使他们不明不白地送了命。
莎士比亚的故事，换了从两个不相干的小人物的角度来叙述，又好笑，又悲惨，这是现代人眼中的王子复仇记。

At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable part of the city, Hermann’s extended family are at the heart of Tom Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama. By the time we have taken leave of them, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and – for Austrian Jews – the Holocaust in which 65,000 of them were murdered. It is for the survivors to pass on a story which hasn’t ended yet.
Regarded as ‘Britain’s greatest living playwright’ (The Times), Tom Stoppard’s new play, directed by Patrick Marber, is an intimate drama with an epic sweep; the story of a family who made good.
Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. Tom Stoppard’s most humane and heart-breaking play.

Scene 1
The play opens on 10 April 1809, in a garden front room of a country house in Derbyshire with tutor Septimus Hodge trying to distract his 13 year-old pupil Thomasina from her enquiries as to the meaning of a "carnal embrace" by challenging her to prove Fermat's Last Theorem so he can focus on reading the poem 'The Couch of Eros', a piece written by another character, Mr. Ezra Chater. Thomasina starts questioning why the jam in rice pudding can never be unstirred, which leads her on to the topic of determinism, beginning to develop a theory regarding the chaotic shapes of nature. This however is interrupted by Mr. Chater himself who is shortly revealed to be angry that his wife, Mrs. Chater, was caught engaging in "carnal embrace" in the gazebo with Septimus, and has come intending to challenge Septimus to a duel. Septimus attempts to defuse the situation by heaping oleaginous praise on "The Couch of Eros", a tactic that works, as at this point Chater doesn't realise that it was Septimus who had previously negatively reviewed an earlier work of his, "The Maid of Turkey". Landscape architect Noakes enters, shortly accompanied by Captain Brice and Lady Croom, who then proceed to discuss the proposed modifications to the gardens, with Thomasina drawing a picture of an imaginary hermit (in the biblical style of John the Baptist) onto Mr. Noakes's picture of the garden (with its fantasy hermitage) as he sees it in the future.
[edit]Scene 2
The setting shifts to the present day, with Hannah Jarvis researching about the house, garden and specifically the hermit, for a study centering on Hermits and the romantic imagination. Bernard Nightingale enters, escorted by Chloe Coverley, who fails to impart to Hannah the true identity of Bernard, as he gave Hannah's last book a poor review. Chloe's brother, Valentine Coverley, is doing research into the population biology of the grouse in the surrounding grounds, based on data from the historical "game books". When eventually Bernard's identity is revealed after a verbal misstep by Chloe, Hannah initially reacts angrily but regardless she agrees to share the research material he requested, allowing him to propose his theory that one of the 1809 inhabitants, Mr. Ezra Chater, was killed in a duel by Lord Byron. Bernard notes that records of Chater disappear after 1809; the only other notable Ezra Chater is a botanist.
[edit]Scene 3
The third scene reverts back to the initial timeframe, again in a tutorial session between Septimus and Thomasina, this time in Latin translation. Again the focus of the lesson diverts somewhat, here on to the destruction of the Alexandrian Library, which upsets Thomasina, who mourns the loss of the knowledge contained there, though Septimus's response is that all that is lost will eventually turn up again. The discussion is once again interrupted by Mr. Chater, who once again challenges Septimus to a duel, having finally realised, learning off-stage from Lord Byron, that Septimus was behind the negative reviews of his work.
[edit]Scene 4
Hannah rediscovers Thomasina's primer containing her ideas on iteration and chaos theory, recalling the previous scene's assertion that what is lost is eventually rediscovered. Valentine reacts with interest to this, as his own research in the present day centres on similar areas and concepts.
[edit]Scene 5
In the first scene of act 2, Hannah, Valentine and Chloe are given a preview of Bernard's lecture detailing Byron's supposed role in what he believes was Chater's murder. Bernard becomes agitated when Hannah and Valentine challenge the solidity and logic of his argument, responding by launching into a diatribe about the irrelevance of science, before departing to share the lecture in the capital and make promotional appearances in the media. Hannah meanwhile begins to suspect that the hermit of Sidley Park, who was reportedly obsessed with algebra and the heat death of the universe, the theory suggested in Thomasina's diagram, and who was also born in the same year, could have been Septimus.
[edit]Scene 6
Reverting to 1809, scene 6 reveals that the duel never occurred, with the Chaters instead having departed for the West Indies along with Captain Brice; Mr. Chater is accompanying the expedition as a botanist, and Mrs. Chater as Captain Brice's paramour. Byron has left also. Septimus has killed a rabbit for Thomasina. Septimus returns to find Lady Croom searching for him, after finding two letters that Septimus had written in case he was killed by Chater, one a love letter addressed to herself and the other, written to Thomasina, regarding rice pudding. Lady Croom then invites Septimus to an amorous rendezvous.
[edit]Scene 7
The seventh scene takes place in both 1812 and the present day, with the action of each in the shared setting effectively running concurrently. Furthermore, in the present day, some of the characters are in fancy dress for a party, meaning that the clothes and appearance of both casts are to some extent similar. Chloe is reading newspaper reports on the Byron murder theory as proposed by Bernard, before talking about determinism with Valentine, in a conversation echoing the one between Septimus and Thomasina earlier; Chloe, however, believes that sex is the force throwing off the universe's ordered plan. Valentine uses his computer to further advance the ideas proposed by Thomasina, and discusses the concept of entropy, and whether or not it was Thomasina or Septimus who was the genius behind the theories. Hannah and Valentine mention that "the girl" died in a fire on the eve of her seventeenth birthday.
Meanwhile, Thomasina (who is approaching her seventeenth birthday at this point) asks Septimus to teach her to dance. Lady Croom enters, complaining to Mr. Noakes about the noise of his steam engine, before Thomasina explains that the machine operates under the laws of entropy (not yet propounded at the time) which prove that the universe is winding down. In the present, Bernard arrives at the house where he is met by Hannah, who has discovered evidence, a letter showing the true cause of Mr. Chater's death, that totally discredits his argument and vindicates Lord Byron. While Septimus waits for appropriate music for a dance lesson that Thomasina has asked for, he examines the picture she made to illustrate the irreversibility of heat, an action mirrored in the present setting with Valentine and Hannah also looking at the same diagram and discussing its significance. Bernard is forced to depart having been caught in a compromising position with Chloe. Eventually a waltz starts. Septimus dances with Thomasina, their relationship of teacher and pupil increasingly complicated by hints of romance. Gus—Valentine and Chloe's brother, who has remained silent for the entire course of the play, brings Hannah Thomasina's drawing of Septimus and the tortoise together. This confirms Hannah's belief that the hermit, who owned a tortoise called Plautus, is Septimus; after the death of Thomasina, and faced with her challenge to the laws of the universe as propounded by Newton, he indeed becomes the hermit obsessed with applying "honest English algebra" to the question of the future of the universe.

以《罗森格兰兹与吉尔登斯吞死了》《戏谑》等作品确立荒诞派剧作家地位、并凭借《莎翁情史》获得奥斯卡最佳原创剧本奖的汤姆·斯托帕德，在82岁之际写下了新的舞台作品《利奥波德城》，再次夺得奥利弗最佳新剧奖。
故事始于1899年维也纳老城中的犹太人聚集区，经过祖上打拼的犹太人赫尔曼·梅尔茨已经是一个工厂老板，他相信世界在变化，并“大胆”与天主教徒格雷特尔结婚，殊不知变化的趋势并不像他所想的那样，在随后的半个世纪中，这个普通的犹太家庭陷入两次世界大战带来的贫穷与颠沛流离之中……在斯托帕德长达50多年的创作生涯中，《利奥波德城》是他罕见地重返自己个体生命经验的作品，以一个普通家庭在两次世界大战中的颠沛流离，照见犹太民族在20世纪上半叶的悲怆遭际。

A supernatural thriller set in the Western frontier of the late 1800s, The Wind stars Caitlin Gerard (INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY) as a plains-woman driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land. The film is directed by Emma Tammi, written by Teresa Sutherland and stars Gerard, Ashley Zukerman, and Julia Goldani Telles. It was produced by Soapbox Films and Divide/Conquer.

When a leak of information in the African Section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.

什么是真实？什么是虚构？影片中英国作家路易斯·弗雷丁在写小说思路受阻，无从下笔时，在他的妻子从国外度假回来后，他转向写一部关于一位女人找到自我的电影脚本。他的妻子在国外没有找到自我，但在电梯里遇到了一位自称是诗人的德国年轻人，二人有了暧昧的关系。后来，那位德国年轻人去了英国，他被邀请在路易斯家中做客喝茶，并表白他很喜欢和欣赏路易斯的书。那位德国年轻人真正喜欢的是什么呢？是路易斯的书呢？还是路易斯的妻子？路易斯对此深感有趣但也迷惑不解，这位小说家把这位德国年轻人的形象塑造在他的脚本中。

The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.