Rosencrantz and Guildenstern figured it out in Act One of Tom Stoppard's famous play.
The director, Robert Benton, and the screenwriter, Tom Stoppard, are scrupulously faithful to the book.
British playwright and screenwriter Sir Tom Stoppard is to be honoured by the Writers Guild of America next month.
Oscar-winning writer Tom Stoppard will pen the script and Atonement film-maker Joe Wright will direct the epic romance, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel.
"I wrote it as the conventionally realistic film everybody was expecting me to write, " says playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, Anna Karenina's Oscar-winning screenwriter.
It manages the rights of the books, plays and films of Julian Barnes, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Keira Knightley and Hugh Grant, among others.
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Adapting a script by Tom Stoppard based on a novel by Nabokov, Rainer Werner Fassbinder brings Weimar-era decadence to life with vibrant derision and visual mystery.
This season's offerings include David Hare's "Skylight" and Tom Stoppard's "Heroes, " two smartly written small-cast-single-set shows that don't get performed nearly often enough in this country.
Tom Stoppard himself might have had trouble shaping it into a dramatically coherent structure, and Mr. Nelson doesn't succeed in stitching "Nikolai and the Others" together very tightly.
The 31-year-old starred in the British TV medical drama "Monroe, " and in 2011 performed on Broadway in the revival of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" alongside Billy Crudup and Raul Esparza.
Also interviewed are Dame Judi Dench, Arthur Miller, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Peter Hall, Sir Tom Stoppard, Vanessa Redgrave, Fiona Shaw, Stephen Daldry, David Hare, Harold Pinter, and Alan Bennett.
Nearly all the playwrights who can fill larger theatres, at least in the West End, are either pensioners (Tom Stoppard, Michael Frayn, Alan Bennett and Harold Pinter) or they are dead.
He barely mentions a New Yorker series written towards the end of his life: long profiles of vivid characters he admired, such as Mel Brooks, Johnny Carson, Ralph Richardson and Tom Stoppard.
She told this to other people, our friends, when through the press we heard the news that the actor, Rendall Harris, was making a name for himself in plays by Tom Stoppard and Tennessee Williams.
He formed The Actors' Company with Sir Ian McKellen, played Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby in the West End and on Broadway, has won an Olivier Award and was the original Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
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