UPSTAGE SPOTLIGHT TRAVESTIES


by Tom Stoppard Directed by Patrick Marber The Tony Award® -winning Best Play returns to Broadway in a “near-miraculous production” of “mind-bending splendor” (The


New York Times). In 1917 Zurich, an artist, a writer and a revolutionary collide in a kaleidoscopic thrill-ride that’s “wickedly playful, intensely entertaining, infectiously theatrical” (Time Out London).


A NOTE FROM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TODD HAIMES


Travesties dares to ask: Is art a necessary tool in the fight for social change, or a pointless substitute for meaningful action? It’s a debate that pokes at the very foundation of what we—and Stoppard himself—do as theatre artists. Travesties investigates this question with abandon, taking the theatrical form to its limits to discover exactly where those limits lie.


WHEN


1917 and many years later WHERE


The Zurich Public Library and the drawing room of Henry Carr’s apartment


WHO


Henry Carr appears as a very old man and also as his youthful self. He dresses in a most elegant way and is especially interested in the cut of his trousers; he has the figure for it.


Tristan Tzara is the Dadaist of that name. He was a short, dark-haired, very boyish-looking young man, and charming (his word). He wears a monocle.


James Joyce is James Joyce in 1917/1918, aged 36. He wears a jacket and trousers from two different suits.


Lenin is Lenin in 1917: aged 47. Bennett is Carr’s manservant. Quite a weighty presence. Gwendolen is Carr’s younger sister; young and attractive but also a personality to be reckoned with. Cecily is also young and attractive and even more to be reckoned with. Also appears as her old self. Nadya is Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin’s wife: aged 48.


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