“What’s it about?” was a frequent response from bemused theatre-goers to “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, Tom Stoppard’s first stage triumph.
Tired of being asked, Stoppard is said to have replied to a woman outside a theatre on Broadway: “It’s about to make me very rich.”
He later questioned whether he had said “very”, Hermione Lee writes in Stoppard’s authorised biography, but he had undoubtedly managed to transform his previously
