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Stage Review

Colliding memories and memorable cleverness

Nigel Gore is Henry Carr and Molly Schreiber is Cecily in Publick Theatre's staging of Tom Stoppard's 'Travesties.' Nigel Gore is Henry Carr and Molly Schreiber is Cecily in Publick Theatre's staging of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties." (Courtesy of publick theatre)
By Louise Kennedy
Globe Staff / April 16, 2008

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"Travesties" is early Tom Stoppard, which is to say that it is dazzling, witty, and exhausting. It's so busy being clever that it can't quite be anything else - but it's so clever that, most of the time, it's hard to mind. (Full article: 626 words)

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