Tom Stoppard: The modern Shakespeare returns to the National for a long-awaited comeback
It is nearly 50 years since Tom Stoppard made theatre history at the National Theatre with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an existential tragicomedy featuring bit-part characters drawn from Hamlet. Now Stoppard returns to the institution with The Hard Problem, the latest though, one hopes, not the last, play to be written by the 77-year-old.