British Tom Stoppard is probably the most famous and popular European writer working for the theater today. His plays are a unique combination of word play and linguistic virtuosity, complex structures, comic tricks and philosophical reflections. With his first significant play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, hailed as “the most remarkable dramatic debut of the sixties,” as the influential Observer wrote at the time, Stoppard immediately captivated the theater world on both sides of the Atlantic and collected a huge crop of prestigious literary and dramatic awards. Later, Stoppard himself became the director of its film adaptation, for which he received the Venetian Golden Lion. The collection also includes other plays: “Travesties” - a brilliant intellectual game, where the author’s partners are Wilde and Shakespeare, Lenin and Joyce “Arcadia”, which is confidently called the best play of the second half of the 20th century; and also “Reflections, or the True.” “The Artist Descending the Stairs” and “Day and Night.”