Tom Stoppard: playwright of ideas delivers a new Problem
Tom Stoppard's new play The Hard Problem opens on 21 January. Michael Billington, who first reviewed him in 1966, salutes a playwright who, at his best, achieves a perfect balance of intellect and emotionI feel I've measured out my working life in Stoppard plays. As a young freelance, newly arrived in London, I was asked by Philip French in 1966 to do a review for the BBC Third Programme of two radio plays by a …