Last weekend I saw a Tom Stoppard play that I'm not super familiar with, "Travesties." I really liked it, it made me want to check out a copy of the script or something to get in deeper. It was written in the 70s as a response to the Vietnam War, but it's about folks in Switzerland during WW1 and the Russian Revolution. It borrows from "The Importance of Being Earnest" heavily, and how people who were really there end up swapping and making up identities to flirt with women.
The wordplay was classic Stoppard fast and furious, which is partially why I would want to see a script. I felt like I wasn't getting half of what was happening. There was a part lifted from "As You Like It" by Shakespeare and I was tickled by that, but I'm sure there's more to uncover. And I just enjoyed the combination of theater and writing and Dada art that gets highlighted on stage. Plus there was a whole segment where one of the characters is spinning in a lyra and yelling about the proletariat revolution in Russia which was so fun.
Anyways, would highly recommend. I feel like there isn't a ton of Stoppard that gets highlighted beyond "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and maybe "Arcadia" but I'll have to add this one to the list.
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