Poetic Obituaries: [John Wood] cemented his [Tom] Stoppard association

as the strangely afflicted Ivanov, who imagines he owns an orchestra, in Stoppard's zany political oratorio Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Royal Festival Hall in 1977. And the "made in heaven" artistic conjunction came full circle in 1997 when, in Richard Eyre's farewell to the National Theatre, Wood was spellbinding as the old classical scholar and poet, AE Housman, in Stoppard's The Invention of Love, managing to make intellectualism both heartbreaking and sexy.

from The Guardian: John Wood obituary

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