The Real Thing

A major revival for Tom Stoppard's classic 1982 play about love and infidelity that concerns three actors and a playwright married to each other and conducting affairs in various permutations. Both autobiographical and highly stylised – much of it concerns a play-within-a-play called ‘House of Cards’ – it’s one of Stoppard’s best-loved works and returns to the London stage in a production directed by the much in demand Max Webster, starring James McArdle and Bel Powley.