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Famed British playwright Tom Stoppard, born in 1937 in Czechoslovakia, was the son of a Jewish doctor who fled the Nazi occupation with his family to Singapore. When the Japanese
Tom Stoppard is one of those playwrights who flatters you with his erudition. His 1993 play “Arcadia” dives deeply into the mathematics of algorithms and fractals. His breakthrough 1966 play,
Stoppard’s play is not exploitative, but intelligent and sincere. I understand why critics and audiences have found it moving, “brilliant,” “beautiful” and “prescient.”