The Real Thing

A play by Tom Stoppard.

Charlotte is an actress. Henry, her husband, is a playwright. Annie is also an actress and also Henry’s mistress. Fiction is the backdrop to life and hardly a recipe for a faithful marriage, especially when it started as an affair. But does it matter how it began if what they have is the real thing? A dazzling comedy of love and language, and the acquisition of self-knowledge through pain.