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TEATRE ANGLÈS DELS SEGLES XIX I XX (UV)

THE REAL THING REVIEW

MARTÍNEZ LUCIANO, JUANVI 13-

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By: Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard is one of the best playwrights in creating “serious comedies”, those which deal with important ideas. He was a playwright born in the Czech Republic on July 3, 1937. As a child his father, who was a physician, was killed in Singapore at the beginning of the World War II. Meanwhile, he and his mother moved to England in 1946. There her mother married Major Kenneth Stoppard of the British Army, from whom Tom got his surname. By 1954 he began his career as a journalist in England. Then, he moved to london in 1960 to work as a playwright, when he began to write his first plays up to now. He is consider even the best in comic invention, visual humor, and witty wordplay. It is common to see in his works how he deals with philosophical questions using his skills. Since 1977 he is quite concerne with the human rights. In fact, he has not only written several issues about that but also he is active in Amnesty International. Furthermore, he has been married twice and has had four sons. In the 1970s Great Britain fell into a situation of numerous strikes and a very harmful economic depression. The industry was plummeting, the prices were soaring. The atmosphere in the streets was desolating, with the garbage piled up in the streets. There was also problems with the public transport, people could not rely on the train timetables. Then nearly in the 80s, the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took power in Britain to improve the situation and to bring changes in the society of that time. The Cold War was also very present in the play. Stoppard explores in the play the British anti-war movement. In fact, Annie joins an anti-misile movement. During the 60s and 70s, there was a kind of revolution called “the sexual revolution”. It was a liberalization, a revolution about individual equality after a quite conservative period, women gained more independence. The divorce, post-divorce unions and the “Free Love” became something normal in that time. At the beginning of his career, he wrote A Walk on the Water which was televised in 1963 and from which was made a stage version in London in 1968 called Enter a Free Man. He won his first recognition with Rosencrantz and Guilenstern Are Dead in 1965 and showed in the Edinburg Festival in 1966, where it succeeded. In 1967 he was known all over the world, specially when he joined the Britain's National Theatre. Other known plays are Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1978), The Real Thing (1982) and Rock 'n' Roll (2006). During all these years, he has been writing for radio, television, movies and stage. Actually, in 1998 he co-wrote the script for the film film Shakespeare in Love. He belongs to the contemporary period, as we can see in his way of writing his plays, using questions and ways of thinking which have much to do with our thoughts and feelings today.

Summary:

The play talks about a cheating story. We can see how is real love and cheating nowadays. Max and Annie and Henry and Charlotte are married couples but we will see that it ends up a little bit confused. The plot begins when Henry and Charlotte are having an argument in their house when Max and Annie come into the house. Henry and Annie confess to Max and Charlotte that they had had a love adventure together. They both end living toghether, as a couple. Then Henry starts to be jealous of a man who Annie has met, but he pretends he doesn't care about it. Days later she confesses to Henry that she has fell in love whith that man. But after when they talk about it and think toghether of what are they doing they end up together again. Max, the mas that was Annie's couple before, marries with another woman.

Cheating, real love and thoughts take importance in this play. The action takes place in every-day places like home or even train stations. The language is every-days language. Coloquial and easy to understand.

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