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  • Stoppard's unique genius is to humanize ideas - logical positivism in "Jumpers," dadaism in "Travesties" -- to show how they are part of our flesh and bone, our passion and pathos.

    Mind Over Matter 2008

  • He played the Dada leader Tristan Tzara in a Market Theater production of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," and today his affinities with Dada surface in the spontaneity and fluidity of his image-making.

    Alanat News 2009

  • He was impressive as the star of Long Wharf Theatre's 2005 revival of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," less so as Polonius in the Public Theater's 2008 Shakespeare in the Park "Hamlet."

    That Wild and Crazy Messiah Terry Teachout 2011

  • Some moments of exhilarating coincidence in these pages are reminiscent of Stoppard's Travesties.

    House of Exile by Evelyn Juers – review 2011

  • According to Laura at Altalk Blog, Swedes have a problem with us Anglos when it comes to swearing, Read Swedish Swearing and Translation Travesties.

    Dang ... Frank Wilson 2006

  • Earlier Travesties are here and here a great piece of work by Babbling.

    Jim Travesty at it again 2008

  • Travesties ensue whenever "American Idol" does anything ... such as going on the air.

    Forget Mississippi, "American Idol" is doing The Beatles. Ann Althouse 2008

  • In a recent article, Army Improperly Awarded $150 Billion KBR Contract, a writer concluded, “Travesties such as this are only compounded by the immense debt created by this war, and the fact that our children will be paying it off for decades.”

    DISSING THE FED AND RON PAUL 2007

  • He came onto the stage almost like an extra in Tom Stoppard's Travesties, in which James Joyce converges with Lenin and the Dadaist Tristan Tzara in Zurich.

    The Immortal 2004

  • He came onto the stage almost like an extra in Tom Stoppard's Travesties, in which James Joyce converges with Lenin and the Dadaist Tristan Tzara in Zurich.

    The Immortal 2004

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