The Real Thing

Name: The Real Thing
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Tom Stoppard
ISBN: 9781580815994

Author: Tom Stoppard

Narrator: Simon Templeman, Andrea Bowen, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Published: 06/15/2009

Categories: Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Theater

Synopsis

Henry may be the wittiest playwright of his generation, but he’s hopelessly naïve when it comes to understanding love and infidelity. Writing about betrayal is one thing, living with it is another. After Henry leaves his wife for another woman, he’s confronted with being the cuckold himself. Both dazzlingly clever and emotionally naked, Henry’s search for the “the real thing” in art and love demonstrates beautifully why both are worth the effort in the end.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in November 2008.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:
Andrea Bowen as Debbie
Matthew Gaydos as Brodie and TV Director
Carolyn Seymour as Charlotte
Simon Templeman as Henry
Douglas Weston as Max
Joanne Whalley as Annie
Matthew Wolf as Billy
Associate Producers: Jennifer Brooks and Christina Montaño
Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Editor/Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Sound Effects Artist: Theresa Arrison
Music Supervisor: Scott Willis

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on May 28, 2020

Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye’s version of “Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing, Baby”: [URL not allowed] A play I saw in the eighties when I saw a lot of Stoppard plays, one of his most popular ones, about the difference between reality and appearance, about true love and lust, b......more

Goodreads review by Mary on December 17, 2015

December of Drama 2015, day seventeen "If you want a lover, I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love, I'll wear a mask for you." --I'm Your Man, by Leonard Cohen There are some who would call this "a fine play," and it is. There are others who will call it "a clever play," an......more

Goodreads review by Doug on January 09, 2022

4.5, rounded down. A few days ago was the 38th anniversary of when this play opened in NY, and one of my theatre blogs did a tribute to it - which is what impelled this reread; I don't think I've ever seen it staged. It's one of the more accessible and lightweight of Stoppard's plays, but it does get......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 24, 2016

It’s not too hard a thing, to start reading plays. I’m glad it seems I’m able to start to read on my own a bit. Stoppard. I hesitate to say I like any given author. It’s the work, you see, that is more interesting. Authors can be fallible. They can create a masterpiece like EoE and then have…the res......more