Tom Stoppard's "Travesties" on Broadway is Dada Yaddah Erudite Nonesense

Tom Stoppard has consistently proven to be the real thing as one of the leading contemporary playwrights having won 4 Tony Awards.  Stoppard was knighted in 1997 and in 2000 awarded the Order of Merit by Her Majesty the Queen.  Stop me now before I go off on Tom's verbose banter that has become his hallmark.  "Travesties" is a loquacious & surreal homage to literary & poetic legacies.  "Travesties" first opened in 1974.  It's a pastiche of Joyce's powerful prose pitted against the lunacies & desecration of war.  The play is set just prior to WWI in England and told in flashback by Henry Carr (Tom Hollander) who was acquainted with literary legends James Joyce, Tristan Tzara & Russian Revolutionist Leader Lenin.  The overlapping of historic figures is meant as verbal barrage on revolutionary impact; art vs. war throughout history.  The crossfire is blisteringly bizarre and oftentimes incomprehensible.  Other artist thrown into the fray include Beethoven and Wilde.  This is a madcap pretentious & repetitious play in which to say art is what survives an epoch.  Joyce's epic poem Ulysses is repetitiously revered.  Stoppard's dadaist play succeeds in creating a dadaist play that is deliberately irrational and artistic anarchy.