Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Tom Stoppard describes how he starts to write a play. This is an excerpt from an episode of Theater Talk originally telecast on February 8, 2008:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.)
“The National Gallery is a monument to irrationality! Every concert hall is a monument to irrationality!—and so is a nicely kept garden, or a lover’s favour, or a home for stray dogs! You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!”
Tom Stoppard, Jumpers