One of the finest speeches in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing (and there are several), concerns the absolute value of good construction, using a cricket bat as an example. Henry (McGregor), an emotionally moderate but aesthetically conservative playwright, explains to second wife, Annie (Gyllenhaal), that they're specially built to give maximum propulsion to the struck ball. "What we're trying to do," he sums up, "is w…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:28AM on October 31, 2014