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The Real Thing review – Tom Stoppard’s gem still shines
There are several circularities drawn around what is real and what is part of a fiction in Tom Stoppard’s 1982 play about love and the art of playwriting. They come right from the off, in an opening scene with a husband discovering a wife’s affair. The …