"This article profiles Oscar-winning playwright Ronald Harwood and his various ongoing projects. The author describes Harwood as someone who prides himself on being unfashionable. He has plays about to open in the West End including 'Collaboration,' which is about pro-Nazi composer Richard Strauss and Jewish librettist Stefan Zweig, and filming of his screenplay adaption of Gabriel García Márquez 'Love in the Time of Cholera,' is ongoing.