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An update on Tom Stoppard, my favorite playwright. His new play is his first to be about his native Czechoslovakia. Which seems strange, since I’ve always thought of his work as having a Central European flavor — although maybe that’s just me misremembering Travesties. (I was briefly into Czech theater around the time the Berlin Wall came down; I remember trying (unsuccessfully) to convince my high school drama teacher to put on Havel’s The Memorandum.)

Stoppard’s new one, Rock ‘n’ Roll, apparently features Syd Barrett as an off-screen character, making it at least the third work of his to feature Pink Floyd prominently. (Joining the film version of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and the great play The Real Thing.)

Update: Here’s another Stoppard piece from the British newspapers.

06 June 2006

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22 July | 8:52 | Cameron Maddux

So Josh, are you the one behind convincing Ms. Tate to put on On the Razzle, and me having to learn that absurd Weinberl soliloquy?

To this day, my biggest regret of failing 10th grade is not getting to see Arcadia in London ... seeing Johnny on the Spot, a play about Louisiana politics at the National Theater was not a total treat.

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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)