{"product_id":"9780571339259-travesties","title":"Travesties","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA title that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in judicious proportions. It is a Joycean web of literary allusions. It also includes a new preface by the author, and revisions made by him for a revival at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in October 2016.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Tom Stoppard's \u003ci\u003eTravesties\u003c\/i\u003e is witty, playful and wise.  Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It is a champagne cocktail, compounded of a balletic nimbleness of invention, a bewildering intricacy of design which reaches the sublime heights where mathematics merge with poetry, and the audacious juggling of a master conjuror.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A dazzling pyrotechnical feat that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in marvellously judicious proportions. The text itself is a Joycean web of literary allusions; yet it also radiates sheer intellectual \u003ci\u003ejoie de vivre\u003c\/i\u003e, as if Stoppard were delightedly communicating the fruits of his own researches.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTravesties \u003c\/i\u003ewas first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in June 1974. This edition includes a new preface by the author, and revisions made by him for a revival at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in October 2016.?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40944718184545,"sku":"9780571339259","price":8.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36396402_aafd7624-79ea-4af8-bba0-a91a246930fc.jpg?v=1759465930","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571339259-travesties","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}