Travesties at American Players Theatre

Travesties is the funny, clever and generally mind-blowing proof of Tom Stoppard’s genius.Henry Carr weaves a tale of the famous people he knew in his youth – from Dadaist Tristan Tzara, to writer James Joyce to Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin – his past is a veritable who’s who of artistic and political history. But as the years have passed, Carr’s memories of his former cohorts have become muddled with his long-ago portrayal of Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, making the play and its characters an inalienable part of his reality.