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Title: Jumpers: A Play by Tom Stoppard ISBN: 0-8021-5100-0 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1974 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Witty, Intelligent, and Fun
Comment: As with so many of Stoppard's plays, this one seems to operate on multiple levels of reality. On the one hand we have a network of philosphers looking for the essence of morality, divinity, and community. On the other, a failed actress has comitted murder and is trying to escape the consequences of her actions while committing adultery at the same time. All of this takes place in a reality that is not our own, but isn't far from it. Stoppard treats these subjects as he treats most of the subjects of his plays: with humor, cleverness, and irony. Stoppard creates a philospher who is so wrapped up in preparing a speech on morality that he is completely unaware of the murder and infidelity that are so obviously happening within his own home. A police officer manages to overlook these same problems due to his obsession with the murderer's past career as an actress. Throughout the play these kind of juxtapositions take place as each character seeks to ignore the reality around him/her as he/she seeks desperately to create his/her own reality. Stopard presents all of this with his usual blend of wit and charm, making Jumpers another solid addition to his body of work.
Rating: 3
Summary: 3 stars means Good
Comment: Tom Stoppard has towering class. His stage business is inspired, his coups de theatre invariably land on the chin, his punning dialogue is fresh, and his plays are rooted into important philosophical and moral dilemmas. Jumpers has dramatic verve, it has the dialogue, it has a husband being berated by a lover crawling out of the wife's bed, but a true Stoppard devotee will walk away slightly disappointed.
A professor of Moral Philosophy, more pecked against than pecking at his college in the middle of academic nowhere, has to deal with a wife and a corpse in the bedroom (a causal link there), a dandy Jack-of-all-trades who is also his superior, a Colombo-like copper, and a janitor who is also an amateur philosopher. Well, of course, this concoction is funny by definition, but philosophy itself, the incisive Stoppard paradoxes resplendent in Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead or in Arcadia, these are sadly missing--and that despite an hour's worth of philosophical lecturing pouring out of George the Moral Philosopher.
This 1972 farce, similar in tone and quality to his Dirty Linen, is far below Stoppard at his best, and yet still quite worthy: few playwrights can be thus described...
Rating: 5
Summary: A TIME FOR DECISION
Comment: If a dead body was decaying in MY bedroom, I would pause to contemplate the meaning of life. Wouldn't you? Stoppard's treatise on the way we think - as seen through enemies George and Richard - is a bombastic indictment of our pettiness. There are really more urgent matters to address. I'M A POET AND PAINTER AND SCULPT OFTEN WITH DRAMATIC RESULT I LIKE TO RECITE BUT LATE AT NIGHT I'M JUST ANOTHER CONSENTNG ADULT
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Title: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead : Jumpers : Travesties : Arcadia by Jim Hunter, Jim Hunter ISBN: 0571197825 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Travesties by Tom Stoppard ISBN: 0802150896 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard by Katherine E. Kelly ISBN: 0521645921 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Tom Stoppard Plays 5: Arcadia, the Real Thing, Night and Day, Indian Ink, Hapgood by Tom Stoppard ISBN: 0571197515 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Conversations With Stoppard by Tom Stoppard, Mel Gussow ISBN: 0802134688 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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