Title: Night and Day
Description: Tom Stoppard’s stimulating, funny play Night and Day is set in a fictional African country, Kambawe, which is ruled by a leader not unlike Idi Amin. The nation is faced with a Soviet-backed revolution which quickly brings newsmen from around the world to cover the story. Using the characters Ruth; her husband, Geoffrey Carson, a mine owner; an Australian veteran reporter, Dick Wagner; and an idealistic young journalist, Jacob Milne, Stoppard pits the ideal of a Free Press against that of working-class solidarity. During the course of the play, each character is given an opportunity to make his case heard as the revolution unfolds. More traditional in style than most of Stoppard’s oeuvre, Night and Day is a provocative and funny look at exploitation and corruption, journalistic ethics, freedom of the press, and marital infidelity.
Subjects: Drama, English drama, English Plays, Oboe players, Biography, United states, biography, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), English literature, Plays, Theatre, Fiction, Playscript, Drama (dramatic works by one author)
Places: Kambawe
People: George Guthrie, Ruth Carson, Alastair Carson, Dick Wagner, Jacob Milne, Geoffrey Carson, President Mageeba
Time periods: 20th century