I love his best known play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and was also a big fan of his one and only novel.

Moon and Birdboot, theatre critics, hold completely parallel conversations that are, nonetheless, intertwined with the play - and actors - they are reviewing. This volume of Stoppard's earlier plays is a mixed bag. No doubt you're surprised to see me. So begins a read and reread of second half twentieth century modern and postmodern drama. Good fun. It is appropriate that Big Dawg is producing it back to back with “The Mousetrap,” and on the same set designed by Dallas LaFon and built by Terry Collins of Scenic Asylum. In its first scene, we meet two critics, Birdboot (Michael Tolaydo) and Moon (Ralph Cosham). 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. Each play is full of monologues that sound like complete nonsense without their context.

The title piece, a send-up of Christie-style whodunnits, is a seamless work of beauty which effectively blurs the line between performers, audience, and the critics who attempt to mediate between them. The other samplings weren't memorable from a present investigation.Two theater critics are drawn into a play about a murder mystery and end up deeply embroiled in the action.I enjoyed "The Real Inspector Hound" even though it was quite strange. His theatrical devices - like having the critic characters of "Inspector Hound" first sit in the audience being critical, and then enter into the play - well, that was quite delicious. 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. PLAY. 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.

A bunch of absurd plays that explore language and meaning and the relationship between actor and audience.

More about The Real Inspector Hound: Play Details Monologues Add a Monologue Trivia Director's Notes Rate this Play Publisher's Website: The Real Inspector Hound. Plays 1: The Real Inspector House was great. But its as nearly perfect in its kind as a P.G. Still, this is a fantastic collection of plays (many of them older works) full of Stoppard's characteristic plot twists and quirkiness. Of course, that is surely part of what Stoppard was attempting to do with the piece, to challenge the audience to truly pay attention and to try and understand what was going on (maybe even to highlight the alienness of Shakespearean language, as well?). Good fun.

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. They felt like inside jokes on inside jokes on inside jokes with a side of fish and chips.The Real Inspector Hound was great and by itself I'd give it a 5. 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. Browse Theatre Quizzes.

Moon and Birdboot, theatre critics, hold completely parallel conversations that are, nonetheless, intertwined with the play - and actors - they are reviewing. Stoppard's preface states he only had the inspiration for the murder victim's identity well into writing the play. I have found it as difficult to understand as I did twenty five years ago, but I like the development of the plot and how the characters move.This collection of shorter works from the 1970s is among the better Tom Stoppard I've read. I agree keep your eye on magnus. Each of the five or so plays have an urgency that wants to be understood, yet a cleverness that wags a finger in the audience's face warning them not to miss one non-sequitur (or in Dogg Cahoot's plays, an entire language).“Sometimes I dream of revolution, a bloody coup d’etat by the second rank—troupes of actors slaughtered by their understudies, magicians sawn in half by indefatigably smiling glamour girls, cricket teams wiped out by marauding bands of twelfth men—I dream of champions chopped down by rabbit-punching sparring partners while eternal bridesmaids turn and rape the bridegrooms over the sausage rolls and parliamentary private secretaries plant bombs in the Minister’s Humber—comedians die on provincial stages, robbed of their feeds by mutely triumphant stooges— —and—march— —an army of assistants and deputies, the seconds-in-command, the runners-up, the right-handmen—storming the palace gates wherein the second son has already mounted the throne having committed regicide with a croquet-mallet—stand-ins of the world stand up!—”“getting away with murder must be quite easy provided that one’s motive is sufficiently inscrutable.” Out. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Although the word "clever" is chronically over-used, This collection of shorter works from the 1970s is among the better Tom Stoppard I've read. But The Real Inspector Hound definitely took the cake for me.The early plays that prove more was going on beneath the surface than silly puns and women down to their undies. Explore quizzes about musicals, plays, operas and theatre writers. You must have been desperate to see me I mean I'm flattered but couldn't it wait until I got back. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists.

I can't give it away... You must read it to find out for yourself.Post modernism encapsulated! Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of You. “The Real Inspector Hound” is a parody of the classic murder mystery tale. Browse Theatre Writers.

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