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Stoppard still scoffs at the idea that theater can be an agent of political awakening or social change: "If I wanted to change the world," he once told an interviewer, "the last thing I would do is write a play."
Eliot, who will no doubt share screenwriting credit with Stoppard in the film version of Cats , once referred to his poetry as a "superior amusement," a description that applies to Stoppard's plays as well: They are amusing, and they make us feel superior.
(One of Stoppard's best-known plays, Travesties , grows out of his discovery that Lenin, James Joyce, and the Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara all spent time in Zurich in 1916, and imagines what their table talk might have been like.)
(Stoppard, born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia in 1937, has also shown some affinities with the playful philosophical playwrights of his native country, from Carel Capek in the 1920s to Pavel Kohout and Václav Havel in the '60s and '70s.)
In Stoppard's plays, the messy and diffuse complexities of history, science, philosophy, and art are tied into neat and compact parcels.