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    Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler, [8] in Zlín, a city dominated by the shoe manufacturing industry, in the Moravia region of Czechoslovakia. He is the son of Martha Becková and Eugen Sträussler, [8] a doctor employed by the Bata shoe company. His parents were non-observant Jews. [9]

  3. Oct 2, 2022 · Though the Merzes are Viennese, not Czech, Stoppard has acknowledged the autobiographical nature of the play’s source material: all four of his grandparents and three of his mother’s sisters died...

  4. Jun 29, 2024 · Tom Stoppard (born July 3, 1937, Zlín, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose work is marked by verbal brilliance, ingenious action, and structural dexterity.

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  5. Oct 2, 2022 · The vagaries of memory and how people fare in the erratic habits of history is one theme at the heart of Stoppard’s newest play, Leopoldstadt, which opens on Broadway on Oct 2.

  6. Feb 22, 2021 · To say that Tom Stoppard was born in Zlín, in Moravia, is true, but it’s not the whole story. For Stoppard, stories are never whole. At his birth, on July 3, 1937, he was named Tomáš...

  7. Nov 28, 2022 · In the time since Stoppard wrote his decades-spanning tragedy about a Viennese Jewish family ultimately doomed by the Holocaust — indeed, even since “Leopoldstadt” opened on Broadway in October —...

  8. May 27, 2023 · In the final scene of Tom Stoppard ’s latest play, Leopoldstadt, which follows generations of a Jewish family living in Vienna from the late 1800s through World War II and its aftermath, a...