It is remarkably unified. Want to Read saving…. 0802135617 My immediate takeaway when I finished was that it may be too absurdist for me. Come to think of it, much of Tom Stoppard’s work may seem like it was produced by someone who accumulated a good store of knowledge in his college years and continued to add to it while playing with it in his scripts.
An hilarious whodunnit. Other editions. You. And while I'm sure that some of the confusion and lack conveyed meaning could be overcome through demonstrative acting, I still think that much of the understanding would be lost in performance. It would, however, be a bitch for a community theater company to stage with its period set including a wheel chair coming downstairs, a body periodically hidden by a couch and its bleachers for the watchers Moon and Birdboot for the play-wrapped-around-a-play.
Simply the funniest play I ever read. In its first scene, we meet two critics, Birdboot (Michael Tolaydo) and Moon (Ralph Cosham). The other plays were...how shall I say this?...prohibitively British. After Magritte was the exact opposite. From my limited experience with Stoppard, he is always playing with words, playing with meaning, playing with intent, and has no problem (perhaps prefers) to have his characters speaking at cross purposes. Jacqueline Preston Acting Portfolio: Goneril's monologue from King Lear and Mrs. Drudge's monologue from The Real Inspector Hound I also thoroughly enjoyed the playing with language and the deification of Shakespeare in 'Dogg's Hamlet' and 'Cahoot's Macbeth,' just wasn't particularly thrilled with them. And he is one very, very clever dude. May 8th 1998 Stoppard's preface states he only had the inspiration for the murder victim's identity well into writing the play. I found After Magritte more suited to a critical read where I could spend some moments considering the allusions before continuing with the play. Despite this, I have fond memories of the Real Inspector Hound, proof that Stoppard's skill as a playwright conquerer even the tedium of afternoon English classes.
"It will follow me to the grave and become my epitaph--Here lies Moon, the second string: Where's Higgs? Plays 1: The Real Inspector House was great. PLAY. The companion play After Magritte was good fun as well. "Having seen this performed and read it before and after.. Is just so much fun...it is brilliant, irreverent, impossible, and reminds me now if the new BBC series "Sherlock". Tom Stoppard is extraordinarily erudite, and often very funny. Welcome back. Enlarge cover.In The Real Inspector Hound Stoppard makes fun of the critical jargon used by reviewers; when they make quasi-official pronouncements, they are pompous and silly. Stoppard's preface states he only had the inspiration for the murder victim's identity well into writing the play. While I appreciated the commentary on the tendency towards sexual scandal that seems to dog politicians in all countries, it felt mostly like a Monty Python skit. Er yes, hello again. Real Inspector Hound, which was written between 1961 and 1962 and premiered on June 17th 1968, is an absurd play that comments on the role of the critic in relation to the play he or she critiques and comments on the interdependent relationship that is formed between critic and actor.
Good fun. Start by marking “The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays” as Want to Read: And the sheer joy he took in writing the whole rest of it is obvious.Tom Stoppard is brilliant...and I wish I understood more of his brilliance.
Each play is full of monologues that sound like complete nonsense without their context. Everything is delightfully jumbled, and it is from this jumble that Stoppard helped launch postmodern British drama.The Real Inspector Hound: This is exactly the kind of fun, light existential comedy that is so characteristic of early Stoppard.
And the crossover character of Easy in Cahoot's Macbeth was just so bizarrely great :DPresented here is the kind of work one imagines a clever young Briton might write upon completing university and going down to London: playful, imaginative, zestful in its learnedness, and above all—did I say this already?—playful. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. I could see it, watch it, and read it again and again and howl with laughter.... Just thinking of crossing the moors in those,contraptions ....! All of the plays were clever and funny, meta and purposefully playing with the conventions of theatre, language, art, and life, but the first two, to me at least, were the most accessible and enjoyable. “The Real Inspector Hound” is a parody of the classic murder mystery tale. A bunch of absurd plays that explore language and meaning and the relationship between actor and audience. Moon's monologue from the opening scene of "The Real Inspector Hound" is one of my favourites! Browse Theatre Writers. Its an object of pure, virtuoso craft and display, as luxuriously self-sufficient as a netsuke or Faberge Easter egg. Birdboot has in a sense "become" Simon, adopting his dramatic role.
I didn't enjoy reading any of them but I often found myself thinking about how much skill it would take to perform the plays and how it might be fun to watch them. Although the word "clever" is chronically over-used, the mesh between Stoppard's plot and dialogue earns it here.Tom Stop-Hard's play on words is catching.