Travesties
- Full Length Play, Period, Drama, 1910s / WWI
- 5M, 3F
- ISBN: 9780571106837
"Stoppard has spun out a fantastically elaborate web to snare his three giants in the same play...One of the great pleasures of the evening is Stoppard's skill in moving in and out of Wilde's dialogue and rewriting it for his own purposes."
The London Times
Description
- Full Length Play
- Period, Drama
- Time Period: 1910s / WWI
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theatre and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers.
Taking Carr at his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could've been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholly riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.
REVIEWS:
"Stoppard has spun out a fantastically elaborate web to snare his three giants in the same play... One of the great pleasures of the evening is Stoppard's skill in moving in and out of Wilde's dialogue and rewriting it for his own purposes."
The London Times
Characters
- Casting: 5M, 3F
M5 (20s, middle-age, 60s)
F3 (young, 40s)
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Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth centuries most crucial revolutionaries - James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristian Tzara, and Lein - were all living in Zurich. |
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