CONTEMPORARY:
While I was in London (England that is) I stopped in to see Tom Stoppard's new play "Rock and Roll" (Check out the review by John Lahr in the New Yorker Set in England and Czechoslovakia,it is a memoir of the last days of communism and of the hopes raised by a succession of alternatives to communism:the Czech Spring of 1968,socialism with a human face etc. It suggests throughout that when all has failed there is still Rock and Roll. I know many of you will sympathize with this apotheosis. I like Rock and Roll(my son is a musician) but I would say ,when all is said and done there is still Chinese food.The play is rather depressing but ends with ecstatic vusuals of the great Rock musicians: Rolling Stones etc. The material is promising but the play is unfocussed. I have a copy with an introduction by Stoppard if you want to do an essay on it In a cast of excellent actors the strongest character is Max, the old unreconstructed Bolshevik who has the best lines including app.I'm a Eurovegetarian ,I eat lambchops.