The opening performance, in the Cranston Street Hall on the Royal Mile, played to six critics and one lone punter, and initial reviews were bad. There wasn't a man or woman who didn't like that suit." He wore a grey tweed suit of a sort we had never seen. Janet Watts, playing Ophelia, described him as "a thin, smiling man in a dark corner. To the company, the 29-year-old writer cut an enigmatic figure. It turned out that such was touching faith in my play that they were faithfully rehearsing the typographical errors". Stoppard realised that "the actors were using scripts typed by somebody who knew somebody who could type. Not only had the director jumped ship, the script was full of "unfamiliar cadences" and "curious repetitions". Some say chaos is endemic to the fringe, and the situation that confronted Stoppard when he turned up for rehearsals was typical.
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