The citation says he has earned the award "for being a master playwright."
By HELEN KAYE
Czech-born British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard will be the Cameri Theater's guest of honor at a gala performance on May 20 of his 1966 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, directed by Yael Ronen. Stoppard will be at Tel Aviv University on May 19 as one of the recipients of this year's Dan David Prize in the field of Creative Rendering of the Past: Literature, Theater, Film. The citation says he has earned the award "for being a master playwright whose plays return repeatedly to the past as part of his ceaseless search for meaning in a bewildering universe while demonstrating farcical cleverness alongside profound humanity."
On May 18, TAU's theater department will also honor Stoppard in a daylong Stoppard marathon that includes screenings of his films, such as the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love (for which he wrote the screenplay), and productions of his play, Arcadia, by the University of Notre Dame in the US (English) and by the Bet Zvi drama school and the TAU theater department (Hebrew).
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