Tom Stoppard: The Space between Writers, Actors and the Audience

In December 2011, celebrated British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) spoke in Melbourne with theatre critic Alison Croggon for The Wheeler Centre. Here, he discusses his conceptual difficulty with acting as an art or profession; noting the tension between the work of the writer and the work of the performer.

Watch the full hour-long interview at our website: http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video...

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