false 1515392 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </div>]]> 17910 4 1176902 1975 Travesties total:427|5:146|4:174|3:86|2:19|1:2| 427 1724 565 27 293 4.10 13223 805 79562210 2313870 1188904 0571106838 9780571106837 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181756829m/1188904.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181756829s/1188904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188904.Travesties 3.86 7 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </div>]]> 1975 0 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 14:45:22 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 14:45:22 -0800 2009
TRISTAN TZARA: My God, you bloody English philistine -- you ignorant smart-arse bogus bourgeois Anglo-Saxon prick! When the strongest began to fight for the ...more...]]> 41187619 37948 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 420 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 5 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 10:32:24 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 10:47:10 -0800 2008
CARR: How are you, my dear Tristan? What brings you here?
TZARA: Oh, pleasure, pleasure! What else should bring anyone anywhere?
(TZARA, no less than CARR, is straight out of The Importance of Being Earnest.)
CARR: I don't know that I approve of all these ...more...]]> 57705313 89519 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 5 0 false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 22:06:40 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 15:36:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 52003087 1916520 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 4 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 18:14:18 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 18:38:40 -0700 2009 rhymed himself into a hernia.
He became quite adept
at the practice except
for occasional anti-climaxes."

Stoppard inserts some lovely debates on art/politics into his word-play, too. It was a pleasure to read, and probably a m...more...]]> 78576525 490509 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 2 0 false Sat Nov 21 17:09:40 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 17:13:57 -0800 2009 28973608 638550 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 3 0 false Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 08:31:53 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 11:50:31 -0700 2008
I had to work very hard at visualizing this, putting myself in the roles of both audience member and director. When I was able to do that (I wasn't always consi...more...]]> 39951772 1768087 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 5 0 false Fri Dec 12 10:21:58 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 10:22:34 -0800 2008 71196732 1263585 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 0 0 false Mon Sep 14 12:17:53 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 12:17:53 -0700 2009 75745944 2834635 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 5 0 false Sun Oct 25 23:53:20 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 23:53:42 -0700 2009 27211262 258936 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 4 0 false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 10:11:30 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 13:02:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 11095675 369870 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 4 1 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Dec 27 12:11:02 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 12:14:59 -0800 2007
"What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's th...]]> 1847376 94602 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 11 09:17:32 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 08 12:02:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 7840919 202316 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 4 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 10:46:50 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 10:18:52 -0700 2007 17675180 929972 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 3 0 false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Thu Mar 13 09:51:32 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 16 10:03:29 -0700 2009 1 2309015 127030 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 5 0 false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Jun 23 16:04:50 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 16:06:50 -0700 2007
Probably. It's also funny as hell. Tom Stoppard, ladies and gentlemen.]]> 13097120 750906 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 5 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jan 21 16:45:18 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 16:46:35 -0800 2008 9745174 383577 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 29 21:44:52 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 21:47:43 -0800 2007 17299609 829225 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 4 0 false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 08 06:18:41 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 21 23:34:31 -0700 2008 326393 18657 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 4 0 false Mon Mar 19 13:57:54 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 19 13:58:48 -0700 2007 8278905 287169 17910 0802150896 9780802150899 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652m/17910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854652s/17910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910.Travesties 4.04 427 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. </DIV>]]> 1975 4 0 false Fri Oct 26 10:16:28 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 10:17:32 -0700 2007 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1515392