Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play

Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play
by Tom Stoppard

Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play
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Author: Tom Stoppard
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-10
ISBN: 0802143075
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Grove Press

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Book Review: Rock 'N' Roll, Tom Stoppard
Summary: 5 Stars

Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play
I am taking a class, studying playwrights Harold Pinter, August Wilson, and the genius of Tom Stoppard. Thanks to Amazon.com, the paperback edition of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'N' Roll arrived in excellent condition and in plenty of time for my class. Rock 'n' Roll, winner of London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play, is set in August 1968. The Russian tanks are rolling into Prague. Stoppard's sweeping and passionalte play spans two countries, three generations, and 22 turbulent years. In the end, love remains ---and so does rock 'n' roll. This is a funny, wise, and triumphant play.

Summary of Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play

Rock ?n? Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. When security forces tighten their grip on artistic expression, Jan is inexorably drawn toward a dangerous act of dissent. Back in England, Jan?s volcanic mentor, Max, faces a war of his own as his free-spirited daughter and his cancer-stricken wife attempt to break through his walls of academic and emotional obstinacy. Over the next twenty years of love, espionage, chance, and loss, the extraordinary lives of Jan and Max spin and intersect until an unexpected reunion forces them to see what is truly worth the fight.

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