Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices from the Field Book

Well, I read it through, albeit skimming a bit. Stoppard is someone I've long felt I should get to know (his stuff I mean) but it might have made sense to have seen/heard more of his plays before reading this extensive collection of interviews. Given his reputation as a shimmering intellect I thought it might be interesting enough in its own right, and I can't really complain because it wasn't.
He does seem fairly interesting and reasonably bright, though there is nothing in here that really demonstrates the genius that's constantly mentioned.

What's in it? About 3 dozen interviews, from newspapers, magazines and in a couple of cases relatively specialist drama journals. They get a bit repetitive. It's mildly interesting to note how often the same bons mots get recycled, both by his interviewers and by Stoppard himself.

I'm not passing a negative judgment on the book, just a mild warning that you may not get a fantastically huge amount of joy out of it unless you are already pretty well versed in and keen on Stoppard's work.

One final passing comment - there is a fair bit of material scattered through on Stoppard's experience of and take on the craft of play writing and production, which I did find interesting.