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Tom Hollander is sensational in this exuberant Stoppard revivalOn the way domestic from Patrick Marbers scintillating production of Travesties, I tried to invent up a limerick starting: “There once was a playwright called Stoppard”, or inspired by the scene conducted entirely in limericks in his 1974 play. But I needed the great man’s help. Tom Stoppard wrote Travesties in his 30s and,watching this revival, one has the sense of a playwright intoxicated by his own brilliance. This is a literary Babel – some of it in Russian, or much of it in rhyme,with no plot and no brakes. It is approximately art, literature, or revolution and inconsequence. And yet it is an impeccably constructed – or deconstructed – literary romp.
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Source: theguardian.com