The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen in love. But is it the real thing? In "The Real Thing," Tom Stoppard combines his characteristically brilliant wordplay and wit with flashes of insight that illuminate the nature--and the mystery--of love, creating a multi-toned play that challenges the mind while searching out the innermost secrets of the heart.
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很閤我口味的知識分子寫作。聰明,刻薄,幽默,結構對稱,隱喻豐富,用連篇金句嵌套齣瞭幾齣精彩的戲中戲。但後半部分過於拖遝,情節似乎也缺乏錨點,不少富有意味的片段都輕巧地滑過,比Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf一類的不朽經典還是差瞭些。
評分I must admit I did not thoroughly enjoy it, but the play was clever (like most of Stoppard’s works) and well-plotted. Beautiful lines from time to time: ‘I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness’ ‘Only two kinds of presence in the world. There’s you and there’s them.’
評分"Carnal knowledge. It’s what lovers trust each other with. Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face."
評分Ever so elegant. The set-up of the first scene is tremendously clever. On the whole I find the play a lot less inquisitive on politics or philosophy than most of Sir Stoppard's other works, but I am ever willing to go on and on about love. (A la Keats: love is my religion.)
評分"Carnal knowledge. It’s what lovers trust each other with. Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face."
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