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THE REAL THING
Tom Stoppard
Read by Simon Templeman, Andrea Bowen, Matt Gaydos, et al.
Wordsmith Tom Stoppard's semiautobiographical romantic comedy wowed audiences on the West End and Broadway. This superbly performed audio version, recorded before an appreciative studio audience, does the same. Henry, a playwright known for his witty and cynical oeuvre, is in real life a romantic—an insecure one at that. The infidelities of Annie, the actress he loves, and her incomprehensible support for a thuggish Scottish radical force him to reexamine his idea of the "real thing" he yearns for. Particularly in the mouths of Simon Templeman, as Henry, and Carolyn Seymour, as Henry's first wife, the dialogue sparkles. As Annie, Joanne Whalley does a serviceable job but has two problems. She occasionally steps on Henry's laughs, and she doesn't vocally project the appeal that makes Henry's predicament so acute. Y.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2009]
Poetry & Drama • 2 hrs. • Audio Program • ©2009
Library Ed. • L.A. Theatre Works • 2009
CD ISBN 9781580815987 $25.95 • Two CDs
DD ISBN multiple sources
 AudioFile Earphones Award Winner
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