Jumpers
Tom Stoppers's play Jumpers is both a high-spirited comedy and a serious attempt to debate the existence of a moral absolute, of metaphysical reality, of God. Michael Billington in The Guardian described the play succinctly: The new Radical Liberal Party has made the ex-Minister of Agriculture Archbishop of Cantebury, British astronauts are scrapping with each other on the moon, and spritely academics steal about London by night indulging in murderous gymnastics: this is the kind of manic, futuristic, topsy-turvy world in which Stoppard's dazzling new play is set. And if I add that the influences apparently include Wittgenstein, Magritte, the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-9538-8
- EAN: 9780802195388
- Produktnummer: 21832363
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'092 KB
Über den Autor
Tom Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and moved to England with his family in 1946. Catapulted into the front ranks of modern playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in1967, he has become recognized as a contemporary comic master, the brilliantly acclaimed author of The Real Inspector Hound, Enter a Free Man, Albert's Bridge, After Magritte, Travesties, Dirty Linen, Jumpers, New-Found-Land, Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Artist Descending a Staircase, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, Arcadia, and The Invention of Love. He has also written a number of screenplays, including The Romantic Englishwoman, Despair, and Brazil.
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