Travesties Review: Silly and Serious History and Art via Tom Stoppard
In the first scene of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, the Irish novelist James Joyce, and the Romanian avant-garde artist Tristan Tzara are all sitting in a library in Zurich, Switzerland in 1917, when Tzara takes a manuscript he's just finished writing, cuts it with a pair scissors into small strips of […]