Word: stoppard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Written by Tom Stoppard...
...about people who do everything to avoid reality. The characters, a group of playwrights and actors, hide behind their words and lines in a collective cerebral effort to avoid that most precarious of danger zones, the human heart. A popular offering for perennially over-intellectualized Harvard audiences, this Tom Stoppard play, like a Woody Allen film, could be about what happens to Harvard students when they grow...
Written by Tom Stoppard...
...Lenin the revolutionary, Tzara the artist of anti-art, and Joyce the self-exiled Irish writer all roved the streets of tranquil Zurich while Europe pounded out its own life blood. The humorous "what ifs" of their possible meetings or interactions are fully exploited by the witty, yet, erudite Stoppard script...
THIS PLAY DOES get very thin. Stoppard's script is a lot like a Historical Studies A course: very didactic and superficial at the same time. And the play seems longer than the two-and-a-half hours of its duration. For persons who don't know much about any one of the three revolutionaries, some sections of Travesties might seem very long indeed, with the humor flying overhead like distant Swiss geese...