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How Tom Stoppard foretold what we’re living through

Plus: the popularity of Angela Carter’s lightweight scribbles has always puzzled me

David Morrissey, Jenna Coleman and Ed Stoppard in a Zoom performance of Tom Stoppard's prophetic A Separate Peace 
issue 09 May 2020

A TV play by Tom Stoppard, A Separate Peace, was broadcast live on Zoom last Saturday. I watched as my screen divided itself into four cubes in which appeared the actors, performing from home. The play was written in 1964 and it’s well suited to the split-split screen format because no physical contact occurs between the characters.

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