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...Centennial/ Michener (2 last week) 2-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1) 3-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (3) 4-The Dogs of War, Forsyfh (4) 5-Jaws, Benchley (7) 6-The Pirate, Robbins (5) 7-Watership Down, Adams (6) 8-The War Between the Tates, Lurie (8) 9-The Rhinemann Exchange, Ludlum(10) 10-Something Happened, Heller
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1 last week...
...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...
...views on art--we hear him passionately wonder why the young people only want to see the avant garde experimentalism of Mayadovsky and not good, solid Chekhov. The only art that could move Lenin to tears in his last years, Krupskaya tearfully recounts, was--and the spotlight falls on Carr once again playing it--the Appassionata sonata...