Theatre of the United Kingdom works are often characterised by menace or claustrophobia. Beckett also influenced Tom Stoppard (1937-) ("Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead",1966). Stoppard's works are however also notable for their high-spirited wit and the great range of intellectual issues which he tackles in different plays. Both Pinter and Stoppard continued to have new plays produced into the 1990s. "Beyond the Fringe" was a comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller. It played in London's West End and then on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s, and is widely regarded as seminal to the
Things: A Story of the Sixties of searching for truth and meaning. Things: A Story of the Sixties Things (French Les Choses) is a 1965 novel by Georges Perec, his first. The novel met with popular and critical success and won the Prix Renaudot in 1965. An authoritative English translation was published in a shared volume with "A Man Asleep". Recent French paperback editions, and the English translation, bear the subtitle "A Story of the Sixties" (fr. "Une histoire des années soixante"), though the original French edition did not. The characters in the novel do not hold as much textual importance as the things ("les choses")