"He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language," they said. Five of them won Tony Awards for best play: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1968, Travesties in 1976, The Real Thing in 1984, The Coast of Utopia in 2007, and Leopoldstadt in 2023. He wrote plays for radio and television including A Walk on the Water, televised in 1963, and made his stage breakthrough with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which re-imagined Shakespeare's Hamlet from the viewpoint of two hapless minor characters.
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Published at: 2025-11-29 21:05:35
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