The playwright claims he now has to dumb down some lines for his literary references to be understood. But that doesn't mean audiences are less clever than they used to beI see Tom Stoppard has been complaining, at an NT Platform event, that audiences don't always pick up the cultural allusions in his plays. What I find fascinating is that he seizes on literary, rather than scientific or philosophical, references. Wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53AM on February 9, 2015