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Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries-James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin-were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consular official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his Core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a...
Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries-James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin-were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consular official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his Core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, fault, and wholly riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.
Tom Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and moved to England with his family in 1946. Catapulted into the front ranks of modern playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967, he has become recognized as a contemporary comic master, the brilliantly acclaimed author of The Real Inspector Hound, Enter a Free Man, Albert's Bridge, After Magritte, Travesties, Dirty Linen, Jumpers, New-Found-Land, Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Artist Descending a Staircase, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, Arcadia, and The Invention of Love. He has also written a number of screenplays, including The Romantic Englishwoman, Despair, and Brazil.
Tom Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and moved to England with his family in 1946. Catapulted into the front ranks of modern playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967, he has become recognized as a contemporary comic master, the brilliantly acclaimed author of The Real Inspector Hound, Enter a Free Man, Albert's Bridge, After Magritte, Travesties, Dirty Linen, Jumpers, New-Found-Land, Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Artist Descending a Staircase, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, Arcadia, and The Invention of Love. He has also written a number of screenplays, including The Romantic Englishwoman, Despair, and Brazil.
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