One of Tom Stoppard’s most enduring works, The Real Thing, is at Oxford Playhouse next week in an acclaimed revival by English Touring Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse. It can be seen from Tuesday until Saturday, June 30.

Henry is a brilliant and celebrated playwright. With his wife Charlotte in the starring role, his new play examines the complexity of love and infidelity.

But when passions ignite and his own marriage becomes entwined with that of Charlotte’s co-star, Max, and Max’s wife, Annie, Henry’s reality and fiction blur.

As he struggles to write a new work, the players in this game of deceit and lust are all searching. But can they find ‘the real thing’?

Sir Tom Stoppard scarcely needs introduction. He is one of the most important writers in Britain today, with a theatre and film career spanning five decades. Among his works are his celebrated early play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead — which started life as an Oxford student production — and the screenplays for Empire of the Sun and the Academy-award winning Shakespeare in Love.

The Real Thing, hailed by critics as a witty, moving and thought-provoking play, has won many awards, including Evening Standard Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play and Tony Award for Best Play.

Directed by Kate Saxon, the cast includes Georgina Leonidas who played Katie Bell in the Harry Potter films.

Tickets for The Real Thing are available from the Ticket Office on 01865 305305 or book online at www.oxfordplayhouse.com