CityLife

Set over a period of 22 years, opening in a sunny garden in Cambridge in 1968, and ending with a Rolling Stones concert in a newly free Prague in 1990, Tom Stoppard's magnificent drama takes in all manner of themes including politics, poetry, and materialism. First produced at the Royal Court Theatre in 2006, Stoppard contrasts two seemingly very different worlds, that of a group of Czech freedom fighters trying to free themselves from the yoke of Soviet control, and a Marxist academic at Cambridge University trying to find a place in a changing world which they know they can no longer influence.

CityLife review

GETTING its regional premiere at the Library in Chris Honer's sophisticated production, Tom Stoppard's Rock'n'Roll is a sprawling, yet dense work, constantly in danger of tripping over its own abundance of ideas...but never quite doing so.more