Jumpers : a play /

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Author / Creator:Stoppard, Tom, author.
Imprint:New York : Grove Press : Distributed by Random House, [1972]
Description:91 pages : music ; 21 cm
Language:English
Series:Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Tom Stoppard.
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy 2 forms part of the Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Tom Stoppard
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/36658
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Other authors / contributors:Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Tom Stoppard.
ISBN:0802100155
9780802100153
0571099777
9780571099771
Provenance:Copy 2: Author's signature on title page: Tom Stoppard.
Copy 2: Binding: Includes dust jacket.
Summary:Tom Stoppers's play "Jumpers" is both a high-spirited comedy and a serious attempt to debate the existence of a moral absolute, of metaphysical reality, of God. Michael Billington in "The Guardian" described the play succinctly: "The new Radical Liberal Party has made the ex-Minister of Agriculture Archbishop of Cantebury, British astronauts are scrapping with each other on the moon, and spritely academics steal about London by night indulging in murderous gymnastics: this is the kind of manic, futuristic, topsy-turvy world in which Stoppard's dazzling new play is set. And if I add that the influences apparently include Wittgenstein, Magritte, the Goons, Robert Dhery, Joe Orton, and The Avengers, you will have some idea of ​​the heady brew Stoppard has here concocted. " The protagonist incude an aging Professor Of Moral Philosophy - trying to compose a lecture on "Man - Good, Bad or Indifferent" - while ignoring a corpse in the next room; his beautiful young wife, an ex-musical comedy Queen, lasciviously entertaining his university boss down the hall; her husband's specially trained hare, Thumpers; and a chorus of gymnasts, Jumpers.

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