Night And Day
by Tom Stoppard

Name: Night And Day
Brand: Tom Stoppard
SKU: 9780573113086
Rating: 3.45 (223 reviews)

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

British

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about this Tom Stoppard play exploring journalism in a fictional African country. Many appreciate the clever writing and relevant themes, while some find the dialogue complicated and the play not as engaging as his other works. The humor is noted but not universally appreciated, leading to a range of satisfaction among the audience.

Clever and witty dialogueRelevant and intenseSmart exploration of journalismDialogue can be too complicatedNot as funny as expected

Synopsis

The provocative and funny look at exploitation and corruption, journalistic ethics, freedom of the press and marital infidelity is set in a fictional copper rich African nation.

Dick Wagner of The Sunday Globe and a competing freelance journalist arrive at the jungle home of a white mine owner.

Soon they are competing for the use of their host's telex, the attentions of his wife and a possible interview with the missing president of Kambawe.1 woman, 7 men