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Dec 5, 2023 · Tom Stoppard on reviving Rock ‘n’ Roll and his future: ‘It feels like I haven’t stopped yet’ One of Britain's greatest living playwrights is back with a revival of 'Rock 'n' Roll', which sees classic songs being contrasted against the realities of life in the Eastern Bloc.
Rock 'n' Roll is a play by British playwright Tom Stoppard that premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2006. Plot summary. The play is concerned with the significance of rock and roll in the emergence of the socialist movement in Eastern-Bloc Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
- Tom Stoppard
- 2006
Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He began writing plays in 1960 after stints as a journalist and later a drama critic.
Stoppard's most prominent plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), Jumpers (1972), Travesties (1974), Night and Day (1978), The Real Thing (1982), Arcadia (1993), The Invention of Love (1997), The Coast of Utopia (2002), Rock 'n' Roll (2006) and Leopoldstadt (2020).
Jan 24, 2012 · What follows is a list of the songs featured in Rock ‘n’ Roll, each cued by Tom Stoppard in the play’s text, and altogether comprising a delicious sampler of great music.
Jul 17, 2023 · Rock ’n’ Roll covers the ensuing 21 years in the lives of three generations of Max’s family while Jan is caught in the spiral of dissidence in a Communist police state. But it’s a love ...
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- Hampstead Theatre
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Dec 20, 2023 · The music of the 1960s and ’70s accompanies this story of love and failing political ideologies. Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Jan in ‘Rock ’n’ Roll’ © Manuel Harlan. Alice Saville.
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