Jumpers

Synopsis

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 adultery, gymnastics and moon landings.

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (67.31.35.106) - 12 September 2003:

I posted before, on 29 July, so maybe I should not be posting again. I'm sad that people have averaged three stars for this play, because it is so marvelous. It's not a play that most people would give five stars to if they just walked in off the street without any preparation. It's tremendously rewarding if one has read about it beforehand. Beale's character "George" is irresistible, and his delivery of George's complicated lines stunned me (happily), even though I had read the play. I'll cross the Atlantic in December to see this play five more times; that's how much I enjoyed it....

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