The 5Th Dimension
May, 1968
"Almost everybody thinks of himself as nobody--a cipher, not even a cog," Tom Stoppard told a reporter in New York last fall after the Broadway opening of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, his first play. "I feel I am like that." He shouldn't. Following R. and G.'s debut at the Old Vic in London last spring, the tall, then-29-year-old Czechborn playwright found himself compared to great and lesser artists ranging from Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett to Lewis Carroll and W...
