Travesties in Conversation:
Revolutionary Minds, Revolutionary Memories
Saturday, March 31
directly following the 3pm performance; approximate start time 6pm.
Join us for a lively on-stage conversation about the many artistic and political revolutions explored in Tom Stoppard’s Travesties. The discussion will be followed by a book signing with panelist Andrei Codrescu in the Lockwood Lobby.
Featuring:
NPR Correspondent Andrei Codrescu, author of The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess. Historian Paul LeBlanc, author of Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience: Studies of Communism and Radicalism in an Age of Globalization. David Kurnick, scholar of the history of the novel and narrative theory, author of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, which includes a chapter on James Joyce.
Michael Cadden, Incoming Chair of Lewis Center for the Arts, expert on modern drama, Tom Stoppard, and intertextuality.
The In Conversation series consists of illuminating symposium-style discussions among leading scholars, artists, and other public figures that foster cross-disciplinary exploration of big questions and concepts in McCarter’s plays. The 2011 – 2012 In Conversation Series is made possible by generous support from the Lewis Center for the Arts, and is produced in partnership with the Princeton Art Museum’s year-long project Memory and the Work of Art.
