The Real Thing

Aurora Theatre
2081 Addison Street Berkeley

Does art influence life? Can life imitate art? Henry is a playwright who draws on his unraveling marriage and troubled personal life to create his works, and razor-sharp drama The Real Thing uses the "a play within a play" device to tease the audience with the difference between semblance and reality. In a clever, poignant and entertaining examination of infidelity that The New York Times called "the most bracing play anyone has written about love and marriage in years," renowned British playwright Tom Stoppard writes about the passion and pain that love brings into ordinary lives. Deeply moving and bitingly funny, The Real Thing at Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley brilliantly examines the complex nature of love, art and reality.