Waiting for Stoppard

“Ben and Jo, the two interviewers in [Miles] Kington’s play, feel sure they have come to [Tom] Stoppard’s country house, that the man dressed as a butler who opens the door must therefore be Stoppard’s butler, and that the Iranian gun-woman who corners them in the library … well, you see their predicament. They take the order of things for granted, instead of taking it for withheld.” Jeremy Kingston, The Times, 14^th April 1995