The Tony Award-winning Best Play returns to Broadway in a “near-miraculous production” of “mind-bending splendor” (The New York Times). In 1917 Zurich, an artist, a writer and a revolutionary collide in a kaleidoscopic thrill-ride that’s “wickedly playful, intensely entertaining, infectiously theatrical” (Time Out London).

Roundabout reunites with playwright Tom Stoppard (The Real Thing) and director Patrick Marber (Closer) for a dazzling revival from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory (The Color Purple). 2017 Olivier nominee Tom Hollander leads the cast.

Experience London’s “mind-bogglingly entertaining revival” (The Telegraph) of Tom Stoppard’s thrill-ride through the worlds of art and revolution in 1917 Switzerland…and in the maze of one man’s memory.

Be sure to bring a dictionary and a copy of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest with you when you attend the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties, directed by Patrick Marber. Starring the masterful actor Tom Hollander, the play requires rapt attention. The lines are often sometimes rapid-fire and there are jokes and gibes, puns and plays on words. If you aren’t listening carefully, you might miss some gems. In this memory play, the unreliable narrator, Henry Carr, describes events 50 years after the action supposedly occurred.  Hollander gives a wonderfully madcap performance, often scampering across the stage. He preens like a fop and makes outrageously funny faces. As the older man, he tells us his memory is not reliable and he notes that he’s got his wits confused and his “think box is stuck.” Stooped over, clad in his dressing gown and wearing an almost demonic, wild expression, Hollander sets the backdrop to his story. He claims to have worked for the British government in Zurich in 1917.  Referring to the Great War, he describes his experiences sometimes with gruesome gory specifics, sometimes in hysterical sartorial detail. During that …Read more