Enter a Free Man is a play by Tom Stoppard that follows the story of an unsuccessful inventor named George Riley.
When being interviewed by Giles Gordon in 1968, Stoppard said of Enter a Free Man, "I have worked on it a bit over the last year.
[3] George is determined to follow his unrealistic dreams, despite the fact that his behavior becomes a problem for his wife Persephone and his daughter Linda.
He continues to put his family under pressure just as his daughter has begun searching for her own independence in the form of men.
Clive Barnes of The New York Times wrote in 1974, "It shows little of the flaunting, dazzling intellectualism that has subsequently become Mr. Stoppard's emblem [...] Yet there is always that wit flicking, out at the audience.