Whatever punk rock origins or ethos they had come from had given way to a humorless and self-serious approach to rock music. Yes, The Joshua Tree was (and remains) a masterpiece but after too much ...

In The Real Thing, playwright Henry is married to Charlotte, who is also the leading lady in his newest play. In Henry's play, her character is married to Max. Max's real-life wife, Annie, is having ...

Since its premiere in 1982, The Real Thing has become one of Tom Stoppard’s most revived plays. It’s easy to see why. It retains all the whirling wit of his early work, but its subject is the most ...

‘There are no commitments, only bargains.’ Annie is an actress, Henry is a playwright, and fiction is the backdrop to life. Hardly a recipe for a faithful marriage, especially when it started as an ...

The Real Thing is a consideration of what it means to be in love – the exhilaration of it, the pain, the unspoken contracts involved, the trust, the honesty, fidelity, commitment. Its main character, ...

SYNOPSIS: Playwright Henry and actress Annie fall in love while cheating on their spouses, then marry and cheat on each other, unable to let his intense intellect and her intense emotions keep them ...