Travesties
Travesties is a 1974 play by Tom Stoppard. It 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.
| Travesties | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Tom Stoppard |
| Characters | James Joyce Bennett Nadezhda Krupskaya Tristan Tzara Cecily Carruthers Gwendolen Carr Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Henry Carr |
| Date premiered | 10 June 1974 |
| Place premiered | Aldwych Theatre London, England |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | An extravaganza of political history, literary pastiche, and Wildean parody, introducing Dadaist Tristan Tzara, and Lenin and his wife |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Setting | Zürich, Switzerland, 1917 |
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