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Article: Talking chaos with Tom Stoppard
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 11, 1996
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As you might expect, the message on Tom Stoppard's answering
machine is, well, Stoppardian.
"I'm not here," says a disembodied voice with an English accent,
presumably Stoppard's. "But I will be again. Here's the bleep."
Not beep, bleep.
Stoppard has the sort of voice that you don't often hear.
Paradoxical. Ambiguous. Yet, in an odd way, very direct.
His recent play, "Arcadia," has just opened at the Huntington and
he's agreed to a short telephone interview from his home in Chelsea,
England, which he shares with his wife, the actress Felicity Kendal,
and his four sons.
Although the call was made precisely when scheduled, at 4 p.m.
Boston time, Stoppard isn't home. He usually is. "The very ...