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The elderly retired British official and narrator of Travesties Henry Carr (Geordie Johnson, in wheelchair) reminisces about figures from his past—including James Joyce (Anthony Fusco), whom he recalls from a production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and the subsequent litigations each party issued the other over matters of finances associated with the production.

At the beginning of Travesties, Gwendolyn (Rene Augesen) sits with James Joyce (Anthony Fusco) as he transcribes an early draft of what later would become one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Ulysses.

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As Lenin (Geoff Hoyle) works on his pamphlet Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, his wife Nadya (Joan Mankin) urges him to move with her back to Russia to participate in the impending Revolution.

The Dada artist Tristin Tzara (Gregory Wallace) attempts to profess his love for Carr's sister, Gwendolyn (René Augesen)—who is convinced she will marry a poet—by composing a Dada-inspired poem from a cut-up Shakespearean sonnet, mixed and rearranged in James Joyce's hat.

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In Carr's apartment, Tristin Tzara (Gregory Wallace) passionately defends his Dada-ist ideas of art against Joyce (Anthony Fusco, seated) and his more traditional viewpoints, as Carr's butler Bennett (Geoff Hoyle) looks on.

In the Zurich Public Library, a young, attractive librarian named Cecily (Allison Jean White, top) gives a rundown of the events of January 1917, as Nadya (Joan Mankin) and her husband, Lenin (Geoff Hoyle), discuss the revolution.

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The young Carr (Geordie Johnson)—in disguise so that he can spy on Lenin—is mistaken by Cecily (Allison Jean White) for Tzara. A smitten Carr goes along with her mistake, so beginning their courtship.

Fast friends Cecily (Allison Jean White, left) and Gwendolyn (Rene Augesen) profess their love for Tristin Tzara... though Cecily in actuality has fallen for the disguised Henry Carr.

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Gwendolyn (René Augesen) attempts to mediate an argument between Joyce (Anthony Fusco, right) and Carr (Geordie Johnson) over money owed from the production of Earnest.

The set of Travesties—with Henry Carr (Geordie Johnson) center, narrating the tale—is designed by Douglas W. Schmidt, Tony Award-winning Broadway scenic designer.

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Tony and Academy award–winning writer Tom Stoppard, who considers A.C.T. his "American home."

Artistic Director Carey Perloff and Tom Stoppard, who have collaborated on the recent A.C.T. productions of Stoppard's The Real Thing, Night and Day, The Invention of Love, Indian Ink, and Arcadia. Perloff and Stoppard reunited for A.C.T.'s 40th-season production of Stoppard's vaudevillian comedy Travesties.