Travesties

Travesties
Written by	Tom Stoppard
Characters	James Joyce Bennett Nadezhda Krupskaya Tristan Tzara Cecily Carruthers Gwendolen Carr Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Henry Carr
Date premiered	10 June 1974
Place premiered	Aldwych Theatre London, England
Original language	English
Subject	An extravaganza of political history, literary pastiche, and Wildean parody, introducing Dadaist Tristan Tzara, and Lenin and his wife
Genre	Comedy
Setting	Zürich, Switzerland, 1917

Travesties is a 1974 play by Tom Stoppard. It centres on the figure of Henry Carr, an old man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zürich at that time.