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Travesties is a play by Tom Stoppard.The play centres on the figure of Henry Carr an elderly man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War and his interactions with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution all of whom were living in Zürich at that time.

author
Tom Stoppard
character in play
Bennett, Cecily Carruthers, Gwendolen Carr, Henry Carr, James Joyce, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Tristan Tzara, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
IBDB ID
8853
premiere date
1974-06-10
premiere place
Aldwych Theatre
premiere year
1974-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
setting of play
Zürich Switzerland 1917
subject of play
An extravaganza of political history literary pastiche and Wildean parody introducing Dadaist Tristan Tzara and Lenin his wife

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