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Travesties at McCarter Theatre Center

Dates: (3/13/2012 - 4/1/2012 )

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McCarter Theatre Center


91 University Place
Princeton,NJ 8540

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The second of two plays looking back at 100 years ago, Travesties is written by one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th Century. A Tony Award winning comedic masterpiece from the writer of Coast of Utopia, Arcadia, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Travesties takes you on a stylistic joy ride through an imagined meeting between James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin and Tristan Tzara who all lived in Zurich during World War I. When Joyce casts British consular official Henry Carr in a performance of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in the lead role of Algernon, Carr finds himself immersed in a wacky and wonderful world of Wildean wit, Joycean limericks, Leninist ideology, and sheer Tzarist anarchy.

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McCarter Theatre Center is at 91 University Place, Princeton, NJ.

McCarter Theatre Center is recognized as one of this country’s leading theaters, and is the only organization in the country that is both a professional producing theater and a major presenter of the performing arts. With this identity comes a unique commitment to creating, developing, and producing new work for the stage, reinvestigating classical theatrical repertoire, and bringing the best of the world’s performing artists to Central New Jersey. McCarter demonstrates an unwavering commitment to engaging, educating, and cultivating a broad range of audiences, making the arts accessible to all people, and presenting an unparalleled variety of bold, stimulating, diverse, and provocative programs across disciplines.

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