Conversations with Stoppard

With new, unpublished interviews covering the last eight years - including his massive new trilogy - this is the most up-to-date account of Stoppard's work - and largely in his own words; With The Coast of Utopia, his massive National Theatre trilogy on the roots of the Russian Revolution, Tom Stoppard has surely - at 65 - reached the peak of an amazing career. From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and to Jumpers, Travesties, The Real Thing and Arcadia, Stoppard has regularly combined box-office success with intellectual appeal. New York Times critic, Mel Gussow, has been meeting and talking to Stoppard about his work since 1972. Conversations with Stoppard was first published in 1995. For this new edition, Gussow has conducted three further, extensive interviews on the occasions of the opening of The Invention of Love in London and New York, and of course on the subject of the new trilogy. These interviews have never been published before.