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Jumpers
Tue 4 Sept - Sun 30 Sept 2012
Tue - Sat 7:30pm
Sat Matinee 4pm
Sun Matinee 2:30pm
Tickets £18/£16/£14
The show runs approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes
including a 15 minute interval
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Pulling Focus Ltd
presents the Tabard Theatre's production of
'Outstanding script,
some cracking performances and strong production values'
Everything Theatre
'This sending up of
academic elitism while the ongoing murder mystery goes
on around them is brought to hilarious life by the
Jumpers'
ChiswickW4.com
'enjoyable production of Tom
Stoppard's surreal satire - a madcap mix of murder
mystery and
ethical inquiry'
Timeout
The Tabard Theatre presents the 40th anniversary
production of Jumpers,
Tom Stoppard’s deliciously insightful comedy.
An acrobat has been murdered at a party given by the
manically depressive former musical comedy star, Dotty
Moore, to celebrate the accession of a new Radical
Liberal government. Her husband George, an ageing
professor of moral philosophy, attempts to rehearse a
lecture while ignoring the nearby corpse as his wife
entertains his university boss and a chorus of gymnasts
from the philosophy department. What follows is a murder
mystery thriller displaying Tom Stoppard's verbal
ingenuity within an anarchic comical setting of murder,
moon landings and adultery.
Tom Stoppard is one of the most internationally
performed dramatists of his generation with his plays
Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead, The Real Thing
and Arcadia. He has written about a dozen plays and
twice as many radio and television plays. He also won an
Academy Award for Best Screenplay for his co-authorship
of the film, Shakespeare in Love.
First premiered in 1972 at the Old Vic and last seen in
London at the National Theatre nearly ten years ago,
this new in-house production at the Tabard Theatre marks
its 40th anniversary. Profound and playful, witty and
deeply erudite Jumpers is vintage Tom Stoppard farce and
plays a limited four week run at the Tabard Theatre.
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Tabard Theatre
2 Bath Road
London
W4 1LW
Enquiries: 0208 995 6035
info@tabardtheatre.co.uk
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