Writer: Tom Stoppard
Director: Trevor Nunn
Synopsis: Spans the years from 1968 to 1990 from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock'n'roll band comes to symbolise resistance to the Communist regime, and of Cambridge where the verities of love and death are shaping the lives of three generations in the family of a Marxist philosopher.
NEW YORK TIMES:
"Get out your handkerchiefs, if you please, for “Rock ’n’ Roll,” the triumphantly sentimental new play by Tom Stoppard."
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
"Tom Stoppard is a dramatic universe unto himself, a writer who fills his plays with big ideas and bold conclusions. He stays true to form in "Rock 'n' Roll,"...has a good beat, but you can't always dance to it."
NEW YORK POST:
"Is funny, enthralling and, yes, it offers you something to take out of the theater you didn't come in with....Stoppard being Stoppard also introduces counter-themes based on the Pink Floyd's legendary Syd Barrett, Sapphic poetry, journalistic truth and perceptive objectivity. It all works quite merrily because his people are people. "
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NEWSDAY:
"Feels strangely distant - as if, this time, his wit and ever-dazzling erudition actually are being used to throw us off the track more than they tempt us to follow him. We do, of course, because lesser Stoppard still is better than most plays written in the past 50 years. But the thrill is more like work this time."
NEW YORK SUN:
"Last year, Tom Stoppard spent nine hours depicting the fertile minds that would plant the seeds for the Communist Revolution in "The Coast of Utopia." Now, with "Rock 'n' Roll," Mr. Stoppard has jumped forward almost exactly 100 years to taste the poisoned fruit that stemmed from this revolution. Substituting Dylan and Jagger for Bakunin and Turgenev, he completes this latest task in a third of the time and with nearly triple the impact."
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BLOOMBERG:
"Tom Stoppard, as his star-studded new Broadway play, ``Rock 'n' Roll,'' confirms, is both playwright and prestidigitator....can at times be dense and even preposterous, but in the end it comes resoundingly together."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS:
"The intoxicating spirit of freedom - political, cultural and social - flows throughout "Rock 'n' Roll," ....It's splendid, illuminating entertainment, chock full of ideas and high-flying arguments (could there be a Stoppard play without them?) yet resonating with an emotion that springs from several fully developed characters."
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VARIETY:
"Stoppard provides no impetus to care about these characters, who serve merely to articulate various points on the political, ideological and philosophical spectrum without ever coming alive as people. Despite this clearly being a personal work about the playwright's own deep interests, it's an oddly ungiving one for much of its running time."
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