Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

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  'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

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• Tom Stoppard:

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• Tom Stoppard:

  The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe t

• Tom Stoppard:

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• Tom Stoppard:

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