DIRTY LINEN and NEWFOUNDLAND
by TOM STOPPARD
As a gunslinger of words, Tom Stoppard shoots to kill with laughter. Dirty Linen, with its insert piece New-Found-Land, is probably the most killingly funny play he has written, though it is also the slenderest. Stoppard's works seem solidest when built on an earlier substructure. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead may be the sturdiest because it is built on Hamlet, and Travesties the wittiest since it springs from The Importance of Being Earnest.
In Dirty Linen, a topical headline scandal has caught Stoppard's fancy. A campaign of...
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