Sir Tom Stoppard, a titan of recent theater and movie, whose award-winning works balanced wit and brio with a real curiosity for the depth of human emotion, has died on the age of 88.
The information of the Czech-born British playwright’s loss of life was shared by his representatives at United Brokers, who mentioned he died “peacefully” at his house in Dorset, England, surrounded by his household.
“He shall be remembered for his works, for his or her brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language,” the assertion learn. “It was an honor to work with Tom, and to know him.”
Born Tomáš Straüssler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia in 1937, Stoppard was a baby when he fled his house through the Nazi occupation—first to Singapore, then to India, earlier than discovering refuge in Britain. He first grew to become a journalist on the age of 17—forgoing college to work at native newspapers in Bristol—and later a theater critic. It was via frequenting the Bristol Outdated Vic, and forming friendships with actor Peter O’Toole and director John Boorman within the early levels of their very own careers, that the world of theater unfurled for him.
Stoppard broke via in 1966 along with his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Useless, an formidable tragicomedy that reimagines the lives of two minor characters in Shakespare’s Hamlet, and which grew to become a landmark second in British theater. First premiered on the Edinburgh Fringe Competition, the play was later carried out on the Nationwide Theatre and on Broadway, the place it gained 4 Tonys, together with greatest play.
