Talk:Tom Stoppard

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What's the evidence for 'co-opted into Outrapo', whatever that is? DJ Clayworth 21:39, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for your interest.

Outrapo

But what does it mean? Is he an active member, a patron, just somebody who the members of the Outrapo group look up to, or what? —Paul A 02:53, 13 Oct 2003 (UTC)

He's an official member... like Marcel Duchamp for the Oulipo, by example, or Patrick Hughes for the Oupeinpo... etc. etc.—212.198.0.93

That doesn't explan very much. What does he do as a member? Indeed, for the benefit of those of us without much French, what does Outrapo do? DJ Clayworth 13:30, 22 Oct 2003 (UTC)

See the talk:Outrapo page, please.

OK. I get it. For encyclopaedic purposes it would be nice to know whether Tom Stoppard knows that he is a member of Outrapo. DJ Clayworth 14:36, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Nationality

I know there's a good reason that Stoppard is considered British. (I don't know what it is, but) oughtn't it be mentioned? Omphaloscope » talk 23:21, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

From the article he was British by residence and adoption from an early age. Singapore would have been British when he arrived there at age 2, and when his mother married he would presumably become British. What else would you suggest, given that he left his birth country age two? DJ Clayworth 01:54, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sheer pedantry

Sheer pedantry I know but hey ho: Around the time of Doggs Hamlet was also somthing called Doggs Our Pet.... a short play written for the Doggs Troupe company (of which it is an anagram)

The early bbc radio writing included a lot of work on the world service on a series based around the events in a young arab mans life and experiences in london....the series was primarily aimed at people trying to learn English.

If you have the details this is totally the place for them: we're an encyclopedia, not a resume!

Dybryd 17:07, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List(s) of available performances?

Does anyone know of a good link for available performances? Woefully few of his early plays are available on DVD, and a quick search didn't turn up any radio plays available on CD. But I may be missing something; searching for DVD's under his name at both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk missed a lot, and both are even worse at searching for spoken word CD's. The best I've been able to find is an Amazon list of DVD's.

FlashSheridan 05:06, 15 October 2006 (UTC)