Enter a Free Man
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Enter a Free Man is a play by Tom Stoppard that follows the story of an unsuccessful inventor named George Riley. The play was first performed on March 28, 1968, at the St. Martin's Theatre. It was directed by Frith Banbury and starred Michael Hordern.[1]
It consists largely of material from his 1960 play A Walk on Water. When being interviewed by Giles Gordon in 1968, Stoppard said of Enter a Free Man, "I have worked on it a bit over the last year. In fact I wrote a new scene for it about 3 weeks ago while it was on tour, but it is basically the play I wrote in 1960. I mean it is still a play about the same people in the same situation. There is some new stuff in it and I have thrown out certain things. There was some imagery which went bad on me as things do, I suppose about a third of it has been written in at various times over the last few years."[2] Despite this, Enter a Free Man has sometimes been described as Stoppard's first play.[3]
