The Real Thing is a play by Tom Stoppard first performed in 1982. It examines the nature of honesty and its use of a play within a play is one of many levels on which the author teases the audience with the difference between semblance and reality.The play focuses on the relationship between Henry and Annie an actress who is part of a committee to free Brodie a Scottish soldier imprisoned for burning a memorial wreath during a protest.
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