Tom Stoppard has spoken of this 2006 play as an alternative biography, of sorts, straddling his Czech heritage with his British identity. So we shuttle between Czechoslovakia and Cambridge, moving from the Prague Spring to its suppression by the Soviet Union and ending with the Velvet Revolution.
The central drama presents a teacher-student clash as Jan (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd), a Czech postgrad at Cambridge University, travelling home in 1968, criticises the communist dream to the consternation of his diehard Marxist tutor Max (Nathaniel Parker).
