Travesties
by Tom Stoppard

Name: Travesties
Brand: Tom Stoppard
SKU: 9780571339259
Rating: 3.93 (3137 reviews)

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120 minsBritish Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers are mostly enthralled by the cleverness and wit of 'Travesties', celebrating its unique blend of humor, history, and literary references. Many appreciate the play's intricate connections to Oscar Wilde's work and the depth of its characters, highlighting it as a masterpiece that shines both on stage and in text. However, there are some concerns regarding its accessibility and the potential confusion for those unfamiliar with the source material.

Clever and witty writingEngaging performancesRich literary referencesIntellectually stimulatingCan be confusing without context

Synopsis

'Tom Stoppard's Travesties is witty, playful and wise.

Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.' Sunday Times'It is a champagne cocktail, compounded of a balletic nimbleness of invention, a bewildering intricacy of design which reaches the sublime heights where mathematics merge with poetry, and the audacious juggling of a master conjuror.' Sunday Telegraph 'A dazzling pyrotechnical feat that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in marvellously judicious proportions.

The text itself is a Joycean web of literary allusions; yet it also radiates sheer intellectual joie de vivre, as if Stoppard were delightedly communicating the fruits of his own researches.' GuardianTravesties was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in June 1974.

This edition includes a new preface by the author, and revisions made by him for a revival at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in October 2016.