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Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play

Tom Stoppard

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Rock 'n' Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. When security forces tighten their grip on artistic expression, Jan is inexorably drawn toward a dangerous act of dissent. Back in England, Jan's volcanic mentor, Max, faces a war of his own as his free-spirited daughter and his cancer-stricken wife attempt to break through his walls of academic and emotional obstinacy. Over the next twenty years of love, espionage, chance, and loss, the extraordinary lives of Jan and Max spin and intersect until an unexpected reunion forces them to see what is truly worth the fight.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Grove Press
  • Publish Date: May 10th, 2007
  • Pages: 144
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.18in - 5.56in - 0.40in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9780802143075
  • Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Theater - Playwriting

About the Author

Tom Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and moved to England with his family in 1946. Catapulted into the front ranks of modern playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967, he has become recognized as a contemporary comic master, the brilliantly acclaimed author of The Real Inspector Hound, Enter a Free Man, Albert's Bridge, After Magritte, Travesties, Dirty Linen, Jumpers, New-Found-Land, Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Artist Descending a Staircase, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, Arcadia, The Invention of Love, The Coast of Utopia (Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage), and Rock 'n' Roll. He has also written a number of screenplays, including The Romantic Englishwoman, Despair, and Brazil.

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Reasons to love live theater, 479. "My body is nothing without me!" The supremacy of the questing mind is asserted by a classicist with cancer (Sinead Cusack, opposite Brian Cox) in "Rock 'n' Roll," Tom Stoppard's heartfelt exploration of the revolutionary spirit, Bway 2007. https://t.co/Y50Bwih0MJ

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Entertaining with Originality | #HTanthropology runs on the Main Stage until 14 Oct | #HTOctopolis runs Downstairs until 28 Oct

Rock 'n' Roll author Tom Stoppard has broken his own record and won his 5th Tony Award for Best Play with @Leopoldstadtbwy 🏆 A huge congratulations from all of us at Hampstead Theatre 🎉 #HampsteadAhead #Leopoldstadt #TheTonyAwards @TheTonyAwards https://t.co/T0XVcDzUwj

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I saw Matthew Macfadyen on stage in The Pain in the Itch - tracks - and Kieran Culkin in This is Our Youth - also tracks. But the only time I saw Brian Cox in a play he was the unrepentant Communist Max in Tom Stoppard's Rock'n'Roll... Actually kind of tracks too in its own way.

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Praise for this book

"Tom Stoppard has written one of the great political plays in the English language. . . . It has a moving, throat-catching intensity. . . . This play shows him at his combative and tolerant best." -- John Peter
"Stoppard's exciting new play of immutable passions and mutable politics, Rock 'N' Roll . . . is so flush with feeling that it never seems to stop trembling. . . . Stoppard locates the very rhythm of life. . . . ÝHis¨ most emotionally generous play." -- Ben Brantley
"Astonishing . . . There is an energy, rawness, and passion here one doesn't associate with the elegant and witty Stoppard, passages of unbuttoned emotion that go straight to the heart. . . . This new piece smells, well, of sex and drugs and Rock 'N' Roll." -- Charles Spencer

What people are saying

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Ben Brantley
@BenjBrantley
2 years

reader and theatergoer

Reasons to love live theater, 479. "My body is nothing without me!" The supremacy of the questing mind is asserted by a classicist with cancer (Sinead Cusack, opposite Brian Cox) in "Rock 'n' Roll," Tom Stoppard's heartfelt exploration of the revolutionary spirit, Bway 2007. https://t.co/Y50Bwih0MJ

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Hampstead Theatre
@Hamps_Theatre
1 year

Entertaining with Originality | #HTanthropology runs on the Main Stage until 14 Oct | #HTOctopolis runs Downstairs until 28 Oct

Rock 'n' Roll author Tom Stoppard has broken his own record and won his 5th Tony Award for Best Play with @Leopoldstadtbwy 🏆 A huge congratulations from all of us at Hampstead Theatre 🎉 #HampsteadAhead #Leopoldstadt #TheTonyAwards @TheTonyAwards https://t.co/T0XVcDzUwj

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