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	TheRealityCheck.Org Guest Writer
		The travesty not only consists of the murder (is there a better word?) of our precious unborn children but in our nation's continuing efforts to permit it and fund it.
		The other remaining travesty occurred 5 years ago when Elian Gonzalez, a young boy floated from Cuba to Florida for freedom, was ultimately returned to Fidel Castro and Cuba, no thanks to the likes of former President Clinton, former Attorney General Janet Reno and former INS Commissioner, Doris Meissner.
		Travesties may be common in many Middle Eastern and Asian countries, however, the greatest nation on the earth should not be associated with them.
	www.therealitycheck.org /GuestColumnist/nkareiva012505.htm (1819 words)

	Travesties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Travesties is a comedic play by Tom Stoppard, first produced in 1974 at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on June 10, 1974, in a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
		Travesties' characters also includes versions of two of Earnest's: Gwendolen and Cecily.
		Although Lenin, James Joyce and Tristan Tzara (leading Dadaist and apostle of the irrational) are all in "Travesties," Tom Stoppard's play is really about an actor named John Wood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Travesties (508 words)

	Aisle Say (MA): TRAVESTIES / ASSASSINS
		It's based on the fact that in 1917, at the height of World War I, the Irish novelist James Joyce, the Roumanian founder of the Dada art movement, Tristan Tzara, and the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin were all living in Zurich, in neutral Switzerland.
		Building on the linguistic excesses of the script, the director has given them a pie-throwing cat fight and a couple of breast-baring scenes that are as funny as they are gratuitous.
		All three historical figures in "Travesties" are revolutionaries, each of them destined to have a profound influence in his chosen sphere.
	www.aislesay.com /MA2-BERKFEST-03.html (996 words)

	Shotgun Players tackle Stoppard's zany wit, as 'Travesties' takes on Wilde, Joyce, dadaism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Travesties" has been justly celebrated as one of Stoppard's wittier and most ingeniously constructed comedies since its debut in 1974, though it hasn't been seen much here since it was an American Conservatory Theater hit a few years later.
		"Travesties" is also a memory play, with the aged Carr trying, and failing, to reconstruct events.
		"Travesties" wouldn't be Stoppard's last play to deal with revolution and commitment -- in art, politics and life -- or with Russian socialism in particular.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/12/11/DDGRVA99CK1.DTL&type=printable (798 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dadaism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tom Stoppard used this coincidence as a premise for his play Travesties (1974), which includes Tzara, Lenin, and James Joyce as characters.
		The Cabaret Voltaire was founded on February 5, 1916 by Hugo Ball in Zürich as a cabaret for artistic and political purposes.
		Sir Tom Stoppard OM (born July 3, 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright, famous for plays such as The Real Thing and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and for the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dadaism (3357 words)

	TRAVESTIES
		Travesties is a memory play, specifically springing from the often faulty memory of Henry Wilfred Carr, a minor official of the British consul in Zurich, Switzerland.
		According to Stoppard's introduction to the Grove Press edition of Travesties, he was born in Sunderland, England, and at age 17 emigrated to Canada.
		After Travesties opened in London, Stoppard received a letter from Henry Carr's widow, Noel, his second wife.
	www.sff.net /people/mberry/travest.htp (687 words)

	TRAVESTIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TRAVESTIES centers around the fictional meeting of three extraordinary figures in Zurich in 1917: novelist James Joyce, the dadaist Tristan Tzara and Lenin.
		TRAVESTIES is a brilliantly funny, pyrotechnical tour-de-force - A freewheeling fireworks display about art, revolution, sex, and song-and-dance by Tom Stoppard.
		Travesties is funded in pad by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts through the Cultural Arts Council of
	www.houstontheatre.com /travest.html (1163 words)

	Berkshires Week
		"Travesties" is based on the little-known historical fact that Lenin, Joyce and Tsara were all in Zurich at the same time; so was Carr.
		The play shifts in time between World War I Zurich and a later time in which an older Carr is filtering what seem to be disjointed events through the prism of his memory.
		In imagining "Travesties" for Williamstown, Boyd and his designers -- Neil Patel, sets; Judith Dolan, costumes; Rui Rita, lights -- went to Stoppard's own sources: Dadaist artists, Oscar Wilde’s "The Importance of Being Earnest," the film “10 Days That Shook the World,” Monty Python.
	www.berkshiresweek.com /080703?id=article07 (756 words)

	The anarchist economical-political map
		This travesty is a completely false approach and thus 100% not consistent or compatible with anarchy and anarchism in real terms in any form, and what is anarchist and thus anarchists.
		Furthermore, the travesties of anarchy and anarchism are not only promoted in standard dictionaries and by authoritarian professors and media broadly defined, they are also promoted by Lenin's "useful" idiots and similar, acting according to this travesty.
		As long as the authoritarian and contradictive travesty of anarchism is dominant in the media, there will probaly always be some confused persons that will act according to the travesty, using their own twisted "logic" to believe that the ideal, by some mystical marxist dialectical way, can be reached by making the opposite, i.e.
	www.anarchy.no /a_e_p_m.html (14951 words)

	Iowa Summer Rep's Stoppard Festival Expands With "Travesties"
		"Travesties" -- which won a Tony Award for Best Comedy and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play -- imagines the table talk when Lenin, James Joyce and Tristan Tzara (a founder of Dadaism) were in Zurich simultaneously in 1917.
		Other members of the "Travesties" artistic team are scene designer Edward Matthew Walter, costume designer Kaiome E. Malloy, lighting designer Bryon Winn and sound designer Mark Bruckner.
		Tickets to "Travesties" are $19 ($14 for senior citizens, and $10 for UI students and youth) from the Hancher box office.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2003/june/062003travesties.html (992 words)

	oscar travesties: they make us unclean
		I'm sticking with actor-related travesties, of which there are more than enough to go around.
		For travesty numero 4, I'll start with the first of two blights that have tainted our very souls and resulted in Edward Norton being Oscarless.
		You may notice that there's a certain two-time Oscar winner that I did not mention, even though his being a two-time winner is the biggest travesty of them all.
	www.script-o-rama.com /travesty.shtml (1465 words)

	Duct Tape Awards: Chronicling travesties and other notable absurdities in public relations and policy
		Jaggers botched 17-year-old Jesica Santillan's heart and lung transplant by transplanting incompatible organs of the wrong blood type, the now infamous Duke legal and PR machine repeatedly added insult to injury in one fiasco after another.
		The real travesty is what happened after the botched surgery as the Duke executive board closed ranks, hunkered down and went into damage control mode.
		About the Duct Tape Travesty Award: The Duct Tape Travesty Award is awarded to persons, organizations or governments for committing conspicuous absurdities on a grand scale in attempting to deal with a bad situation.
	ducttapeforpeace.org /dtawards/index.shtml (610 words)

	An Ergodic Walk: Travesties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Much of the play's structure, which stems from its central questions of memory and the revision of history, has to be teased out in the reading but is crystal clear on stage.
		Fast forward to the "present" (presumably 1974, when the play premiered), and Carr, who has led a very undistinguished life, is trying, in his semi-senility, to title his memoirs.
		His travesty of justice is wrapped in with a travesty of Earnest.
	www.ergodicity.net /mt-archives/000511.html (664 words)

	Travesties Onstage at Whittier College
		Tom Stoppard’s Travesties will be presented by the Whittier College Theatre Arts Department on stage at the Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, at 8 p.m.
		Carr’s great claim to fame was that he appeared in the Oscar Wilde comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, produced by James Joyce, brought a lawsuit against Joyce and ended up as a minor character in his novel Ulysses.
		Travesties is Carr’s senile reminiscences of his encounters with the trio.
	www.whittier.edu /pr/rls.Travesties.html (396 words)

	Shotgun Players
		The place is Zurich, the time is 1918 and three men destined to become icons are in town at the same time: James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Vladimir Lenin.
		Travesties is set in an era quite parallel to this one, where the world is in tangible chaos and where the “world order” will be irrevocably changed by the actions of both ordinary and extraordinary people.
		Inspiration for Travesties arrived when Stoppard discovered that The Importance of Being Earnest had been produced in Zurich, with a man named Henry Carr in the cast – and that the business manager for the show was none other than James Joyce.
	www.shotgunplayers.org /archive/seas13/travesties/trav.cfm (752 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ultramontanism
		The war against Ultramontanism is accounted for not merely by its adversaries' denial of the genuine Catholic doctrine of the Church's power and that of her supreme ruler, but also, and even more, by the consequences of that doctrine.
		These are either pure inventions or malicious travesties.
		For the rest, it is sufficient to follow attentively, one by one, the struggle kept up in their journals and books to be convinced that this warfare by the Rationalist-Protestant-Modernist coalition against "Clericalism" or "Ultramontanism" is, fundamentally, directed against integral Catholicism--that is, against papal, anti-Liberal, and counter-Revolutionary Catholicism.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15125a.htm (885 words)

	Seven Plays in the Berkshires, Summer 2003
		That's the playful what-if that animates both "Assassins" and "Travesties." The two results are wildly different fantasias on this shared premise.
		The tie that binds the nine principals in Steven Sondheim's musical "Assassins" is that they all shot-or at least shot at-a president of the United States.
		The connecting thread in Tom Stoppard's play "Travesties" is both more solid and more tenuous: in 1917, at the height of World War I, the Irish novelist James Joyce, the Roumanian founder of the Dada art movement, Tristan Tzara, and the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin were all living in Zurich, in neutral Switzerland.
	www.frugalfun.com /sevenplays.html (3697 words)

	Travesties Summary & Essays - Tom Stoppard
		When Travesties appeared on the London stage in 1974, it soon reinforced Tom Stoppard's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most innovative and clever playwrights.
		As Stoppard cleverly juxtaposes his three central figures' theories on Marxism, dadaism, and modernism, he addresses complex questions on the nature and function of politics and art and the role of the artist.
		Anne Wright, in her article on Stoppard for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, suggests that Travesties, along with his other plays, proves Stoppard to be "a skilled craftsman, handling with great dexterity and precision plots of extreme ingenuity and intricacy."
	www.enotes.com /travesties (246 words)

	East European Quarterly: Tom Stoppard's travesties and the politics of earnestness.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tom Stoppard's travesties and the politics of earnestness.
		One of the characteristics of modernist culture at the beginning of the twentieth century was the radical liquidation of the inherited structures and the creation of a bold phantasm for the organizing of an unprecedented society and a revolutionary art.
		In respect to this historical project, the political aesthetics of Dadaism, Joyce's fictional innovations that marked the height of high modernism in Ulysses, and the Soviet Proletcultur in Russia which Lenin spearheaded, ran parallel courses and allowed for extraordinary travesties in merging the concepts of aesthetic, literary,...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:123367449&refid=ip_almanac_hf (214 words)

	The Thresher Online: Complex `Travesties' handled well by cast (October 27, 1995)
		It is filled with philosophy, history and complex language and plot devices.
		Although it seems to be a case of biting off more than can be chewed, the cast, directed by Nicole Peterson and John Salisbury, pulls off a commendable, entertaining production.
		The plot of Travesties centers on the memories of Henry Carr (Martin Holt).
	www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/83/951027/AE/Story04.html (734 words)

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		EARLIER THIS YEAR [1994], the issue of what have become known as miscarriages of justice raised its ugly head again with the massive media coverage given to the acquittal of Paul Hill in Belfast's appeal court for the killing of British soldier Brian Shaw.
		Even though the system is ultimately at fault, overturning a conviction is a painstaking legal task in each individual case.
		What is also clear, however, is that while the Diplock system remains in place, such travesties of justice will continue.
	larkspirit.com /history/diplock.html (1689 words)

	The Volokh Conspiracy - Went to see Tom Stoppard's Travesties tonight.--
		In Travesties, when the characters described a street in Old Town in Zurich, with cafes and a red-light district, I thought about how much more sophisticated my daughter is than I was in high school.
		The James Joyce character had a terrible Irish accent, which caused me to wonder about what the director and the actor were up to.
		I Googled "accent joyce travesties stoppard" and found that in other productions, Joyce's bad accent was often cited as either a high point or a low point of the production.
	volokh.com /posts/1113456504.shtml (514 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Travesties -
		I was having a good time, and I had certain arguments that I enjoyed conducting with the other half of myself about the role of the artist." That's as accurate a description of Stoppard's modus operandi at the onset of his brilliant career as anyone might come up with.
		A special treat for Stoppard fans who revisit Travesties now is noticing how some of the play's themes are treated in his earlier and later works.
		Footnote-to-history Carr is a version of the glorified title characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Oscar Wilde appears as a major figure in The Invention of Love; and the playwright's obsession with Russian history is further pursued in The Coast of Utopia (soon to be seen in New York).
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/6022 (888 words)

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	Folklore: Agnes Bowker's Cat: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England - Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The bibliographically minded should note that the book was first issued under the present subtitle alone.
		"Travesties" in that subtitle is to be construed broadly, to include burlesque, mockery, and cross-dressing, all of which are found in the book, along with more gruesome or simply weird material.
		Not all the stories can be discussed here, but those that follow are representative.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2386/is_2_114/ai_106981972 (1119 words)

	Travesties Entertainment, Inc. - Special Events Entertainment
		Travesties Entertainment is a Special Events and Entertainment company located in New York City.
		Since 1985, Travesties Entertainment, Inc. has continually met the challenge of converting visions into memorable events.
		Travesties entertainment Inc., special events entertainment, one of New York's fastest growing entertainment companies.
	www.travestiesent.com (162 words)

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