Jumpers

Jumpers

:"For other uses, see Jumper"Jumpers" is a 1972 play by Tom Stoppard. It explores and satirises the field of academic philosophy, likening it to a highly skillful competitive gymnastics display. "Jumpers" raises questions such as "What do we know?" and "Where do values come from?" It is set in an alternate reality where some British astronauts have landed on the moon and "Radical Liberals" (read logical positivists) have taken over the British government (the play seems to suggest that logical postivists would be immoral (Archie says that murder is not wrong, merely "antisocial")). It was inspired by the notion that a manned moon landing would ruin the moon as a poetic trope and possibly lead to a collapse of moral values.

The play was first performed by the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic Theatre, London on 2 February 1972 with Michael Hordern and Diana Rigg in the leading roles of George and Dorothy. Carl Toms designed the sets and costumes for the original production.

External links

* [http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/stoppt/jumpers.htm Reviews]

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