Travesties

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Travesties is a 1974 play by Tom Stoppard that comically intertwines historical figures and literary styles to explore art, politics, and memory in Zurich during World War I.

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Travesties canonical 7
stage play Travesties 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf play
author Tom Stoppard
awarded Evening Standard Theatre Awards
surface form: Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy

Tony Award for Best Play
basedOn The Importance of Being Earnest
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
dateOfFirstPerformance 1974
dramaticForm three-act play
exploresTheme art
memory
politics
the nature of history
featuresCharacter James Joyce
Tristan Tzara
Vladimir Lenin
genre comedy
metatheatre
hasCharacter Bennett
Cecily
Gwendolen Fairfax
surface form: Gwendolen

Nadya
hasMetafictionalElements true
inspiredBy Henry Carr’s lawsuit against James Joyce
language English
literaryStyle farce
parody
pastiche
mainCharacter Henry Carr
notableRevival 2016 Menier Chocolate Factory production
2017 Broadway revival
parodies The Importance of Being Earnest
partOf Tom Stoppard plays
premiereCity London, England
surface form: London
premiereLocation Aldwych Theatre
producedBy Royal Shakespeare Company
publisher Faber and Faber
settingLocation Zurich
settingTime 1917
World War I
structureCharacteristic nonlinear narrative
unreliable narration
subjectMatter Dada
surface form: Dadaism

modernism in literature
revolutionary politics
usesIntertextuality true

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Tom Stoppard notableWork Travesties
Tom Stoppard wrote Travesties
Freddie Fox notableWork Travesties
Henry Carr in Travesties (stage) fictionalUniverse Travesties
subject surface form: Henry Carr (Travesties)
Henry Carr in Travesties (stage) appearsInWork Travesties
subject surface form: Henry Carr (Travesties)
Henry Carr in Travesties (stage) firstAppearance Travesties
subject surface form: Henry Carr (Travesties)
this entity surface form: stage play Travesties
Tomáš Straussler notableWork Travesties
Seth Numrich notableWork Travesties