The work of the Englishman Tom Stoppard, the creator of the famous plays “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, “The Real Inspector Hound”, “Travesties”, “Arcadia”, as well as the scripts for the films “Vatel”, “Shakespeare in Love”, “Brazil”, “ Empire of the Sun" and many, many others - hardly needs any additional introduction. A skilled master of paradoxes, an excellent interpreter of the classics, an intellectual virtuoso, capable and inclined to parody and travesty reality, Stoppard has gained worldwide fame and is recognized as one of the significant and most interesting authors of our time. In this publication, for the first time, the plays “Indian Mascara” and “Indian Mascara” are offered to the attention of readers in Russian. The Invention of Love,” written with Stoppard’s characteristic brilliance, elegance and high intellectual charge.