Cut Conversations – A New Series of Author Events

The Cut, Halesworth has announced a dynamic new series of fundraising events featuring today’s leading writers in conversation about their work and lives. The series opens with Dame Hermione Lee on one of our greatest living playwrights, Sir Tom Stoppard.

Acclaimed biographer of Virginia Woolf and other brilliant literary lives, Hermione Lee has most recently completed an 825-page definitive account of Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, Tom Stoppard, A Life.

Stoppard is Hermione Lee’s first living biographical subject and, with unprecedented access to private papers, diaries and letters – plus countless interviews with figures ranging from Felicity Kendal to John Boorman, Trevor Nunn to Steven Spielberg – she has written a meticulously researched and hugely enjoyable portrait of his dazzling life and work.
Hermione Lee will present an illustrated talk and then share unique details and stories about Stoppard in a one-off conversation with former Bloomsbury publisher, Liz Calder. Audiences online will be able to join them from anywhere in the world.

Liz Calder explains: ‘I read Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee during the first days of lockdown. What a piece of luck! I have never enjoyed a biography so much. It lightened and enlightened those dark days. There isn’t a dull page in it. But then there wasn’t, it seems, a dull day in the life of Tom Stoppard. I’m so looking forward to speaking to Hermione, having known her for many years, and Tom Stoppard has hugely enriched my theatre experiences and cultural life.’

Copies of the book Tom Stoppard, A Life are available to order from Halesworth Bookshop.

This is a fundraiser for The Cut and will take place on Zoom on Sunday 14th March 2021 starting at 3:00pm.

For more information visit newcut.org.