Word: carr
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...wife), and the Rumanian dadaist Tristan Tzara, all of whom Stoppard brings together onstage (they never met in real life). All the ingredients of a fine intellectual comedy are there, but Stoppard fails to make them gel. The problem is the character he chooses to be his catalyst: Henry Carr. In real life, Carr, a British consul in Zurich, once sued Joyce to recover some money he'd spent on a pair of pants for an amateur production of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest put on by the local English-speaking community and co-produced by Joyce. Stoppard...
Travesties' first act is full of the kind of wordplay, witty repartee and the name-dropping of ideas that has always been Stoppard's strength in the past. It's a lightweight world of drawing room comedy in which the foursome of Carr, Tzara and their English girl-friends gets itself confused with the foursome of Wilde's play. Tzara explains how he discovered the word "dada" and Joyce is good for a couple of show-stopping limericks, but things never get off the ground. Some of the minor characters are better drawn, such as Carr's butler, who oversees...
FICTION 1-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1 last week...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1 last week...
FICTION 1-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1 last week) 2-The Dogs of War, Forsyth (2) 3-Watership Down, Adams (3) 4-Jaws, Benchley(4) 5-Cashelmara, Howatch (5) 6-House of a Thousand Lanterns, Holt(8) 7-The War Between the Tates, Lurie 8-Centennial, Michener (9) 9-The Fan Club, Wallace (6) 10-lf Beale Street Could Talk, Baldwin...