A parody of The Importance of Being Earnest, it is set in Zurich, and portrays a fictional meeting between Tristan Tzara, Vladimir Lenin, and James Joyce.
al interludes in this work include"The Stripper," which is played as one character is described as a "patronizing Kant-struck pig," as well the "Appassionata" Sonata, which degenerates absurdly into "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean." At that point in this play, characters like the butler Bennett, begin to speak in rhyme, as when one character declares that "Brother Jack is news to me." One character in this play writes his poems by pulling words out of his hat, another is discussed in a lecture on Marxism by Cecily Caruthers, and another tells Henry Carr that during the war he "wrote Ulysses!" A parody of The Importance of Being Earnest, it is set in Zurich, and portrays a fictional meeting between Tristan Tzara, Vladimir Lenin, and James Joyce. FTP, name this play by Tom Stoppard.
al interludes in this work include"The Stripper," which is played as one character is described as a "patronizing Kant-struck pig," as well the "Appassionata" Sonata, which degenerates absurdly into "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean.
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