During this time, Stoppard began writing plays, and was commissioned to write several radio and television dramas. In 1960, he moved to London, where he worked as a freelance reporter until 1963. After four years at the Western Daily Press, Stoppard worked as a reporter for the Evening World, another Bristol newspaper, from 1958 to 1960. In 1954, when he was seventeen years old, Stoppard quit school to work for the Western Daily Press, a Bristol newspaper. After several moves throughout England, the Stoppards settled in Bristol in 1950, during which time Tom attended Dolphin preparatory school in Nottinghamshire, and then Pocklington School in Yorkshire. The family relocated to England, where Kenneth worked in the machine-tool business. In 1946, Tom’s mother married Major Kenneth Stoppard, a British army officer who was stationed in India. His father, who stayed behind, was killed in 1941, after the invasion. Just before the Japanese invasion of Singapore, Tom was evacuated with his mother and older brother to Darjeeling, India. His father was a company physician for a Czech shoe manufacturer, which relocated the family to Singapore in 1939. He was the second son of Eugene and Martha Straussler. Tom Stoppard was born Tomas Straussler, on July 3, 1937, in Zlin, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). The play addresses themes of Empire, cultural imperialism, and nationalism. Indian and English characters discuss their differing perspectives on the history and meaning of British colonization of India. This play is concerned primarily with the historical and cultural struggles in India to gain independence from British Imperial rule. The central enigma is the question of whether or not the Indian artist painted a nude portrait of Flora, and whether or not the two had an “erotic relationship.” Swan, is visited first by this English scholar, and then by the son of the Indian artist. The action in England concerns the efforts of a scholar of Flora Crewe’s work to gather information for a biography. The action in India concerns Flora Crewe, a British poetess, whose portrait is being painted by an amateur Indian artist. The action shifts back and forth between these two settings without major set changes or clearly indicated transitions. Indian Ink takes place in two different locations and time periods: India in 1930, during the struggle for national independence from British colonial rule, and England in the mid-1980s. His two-act play Indian Ink(1994) is based on his earlier radio play In the Native State and was first performed in London in 1995. Tom Stoppard is a leading British playwright of the twentieth century.
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