Performance: Stoppard on the Radio

Farnham Theatre Association and the Farnham Rep presents a tribute to the late Sir Tom Stoppard, who died last year. One of the most performed playwrights of his generation, Stoppard’s wit, imagination and verbal brilliance has delighted audiences around the world. A talented cast of skilled actors celebrates Stoppard’s genius in a rehearsed reading of Albert’s Bridge, one of his early and most successful plays written for BBC Radio.

Born in Czechoslovakia, Stoppard’s family escaped from the Nazi occupation and arrived in England when he was eight years old. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language, he crafted art, science, history, politics, and philosophy into a remarkable spectrum of literary genres: theatre, radio, film, TV, journalism, and fiction. The seeds of his great dramatic creations such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Thing, Arcadia and the Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love are already germinating in his astonishing work for radio in the 1960s & ’70s.