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Jumpers is a play by Tom Stoppard which was first performed in 1972. It explores and satirises the field of academic philosophy by likening it to a less-than-skilful competitive gymnastics display.
Jan 1, 2001 · Tom Stoppard. The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy, Stoppard brilliantly parodies the philosophy lecture, the detective thriller, the comedy of ...
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Sep 11, 2020 · The definitive text of Tom Stoppard's celebrated comedy about a professor of Moral Philosophy "FF plays"--Cover
Dec 5, 2023 · Murder, marriage and metaphysics–the three elements that link the bizarre series of events in Tom Stoppard's high-spirited comedy.
Being a long term fan and researcher of Tom Stoppard's works, I should say this is stoppardian classic! Witty and absurd as we love it. Jumpers, murder and philosophical talk, where could one find all these things together? Only in a play by Stoppard. Recommend for stoppardians and curious theatre goers.
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Jumpers is an unusual acrobatic-philosophical play (with a touch of murder-mystery to it, and a good dose of politics as well). At the centre is an ill-paired couple, the appropriately named Dotty, a semi-famous former musical-comedy actress, and George Moore, a Professor of Moral Philosophy.
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Tom Stoppard. Grove Press, 1974 - Drama - 89 pages. Tom Stoppers's play "Jumpers" is both a high-spirited comedy and a serious attempt to debate the existence of a moral absolute, of...
