Rock’n’Roll by Tom Stoppard
STOPPARD, Tom. Rock’n’Roll. London: Faber and Faber, 2006.
First revised edition, first printing. Includes an introduction by the author. Rock ‘n’ Roll premiered at The Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2006. The play was directed by Trevor Nunn, with Brian Cox playing the Marxist don Max. The text here is slightly altered from the Royal Court programme in places where it has been brought into line with the performance text.
Rock ‘n’ Roll spans the recent history of Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution - but from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock 'n' roll band came to symbolise resistance to the regime, and the British left, represented by a Communist philosopher at Cambridge.
xxii, 118 pp. HB (ISBN: 9780571233205). 8vo. In dust-jacket. A fine copy.