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After Magritte: A Play. by Tom Stoppard

'Mother lies prone on an ironing board under a basket of fruit suspended from the ceiling, while a young couple — the girl in a ball dress, the man stripped to the waist in waders — are frantically changing light bulbs; through a street window at the back a policeman spies on this domestic scene in a posture of frozen astonishment...You see the author at full stretch when the police burst in and embark on a lunatic investigation involving four characters who all see the facts in a totally different light, and pounce on every ambiguous word to shoot off in their own direction: the dialogue operates like a railway junction with a madman switching over the points.' Irving Wardle in The Times.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 32
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780573620027
  • Genres
  • plays, drama, fiction, art, theatre
  • Release date
  • 1998