Night And Day
by Tom Stoppard

Night And Day Book Cover
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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

Publication

PublisherSamuel French
Year1981
BindingPaperback
Pages66
PlaceLondon
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780573113086
ISBN-100573113084
DCC822/.914

Night And Day is a British play written by Tom Stoppard and published by Samuel French in London (1981).

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Samuel French · 1981 · 66 pp

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