Travesties
Travesties Author: Tom Stoppard
First Performance: 1974, London
Published: 1975
Genre: Com. in 2 acts
Setting: Zurich, 1918 and c.1960
Cast: 5m, 3f
During the First World War a number of major figures gather in the safe haven of a library in Zurich: James Joyce has come from Paris and is dictating
Ulysses to his secretary; Romanian-born Tristan Tzara paves the way for Dadaism by cutting up a poem and randomly drawing words from a hat; and Lenin discusses revolution in Russian with his wife Nadya. Amongst discussions on the nature and function of art, the action centres on Joyce's forthcoming production of The Importance of Being Earnest, in which Joyce plays Lady Bracknell, and Tzara Jack Worthing. Having been cast in the major role of Algernon Moncrieff, Henry Carr, a minor British consular...
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