London Duke Of York Theatre – Artist Descending A Staircase 1973

About this Artist Descending A Staircase theatre programme

An original programme for Tom Stoppard’s Artist Descending A Staircase at the Duke Of York Theatre, London, together with the flyer leaflet. The cast included Peter Copley, Gareth Tudor Price, William Lucas, Karl James, Sarah Woodward and John Warnaby in Stoppard’s witty puzzle of three elderly avant-garde artists and a death on the stairs. A clever piece of theatre memorabilia for admirers of Stoppard’s wordplay and ingenious structure.

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Did you know?

• Artist Descending a Staircase was written as a radio play for the BBC and first broadcast in 1972.
• The title plays on Marcel Duchamp’s famous painting Nude Descending a Staircase.
• The play moves backwards in time through a series of scenes and then forward again.