Verlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
'Travesties' was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the 20th 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...
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'Travesties' was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the 20th 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 consul official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theatre and later through 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, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.
