Jumpers
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Opened Apr 25, 2004
Closed Jul 11, 2004
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Tom Stoppard's play is an outrageous comedy, dazzling philosophic debate and crackling murder mystery, all at once. The elements include an ill-fated moon landing, a naked lady on a swing, a dead body in the closet, a pyramid of acrobats, an onstage band and a trained tortoise on the loose. Simon Russel Beale and Essie Davis head the cast of the National Theatre of Great Britain's production of Jumpers. David Leveaux directs.
George Moore, a professor of philosophy, is struggling to write a speech about moral absolutes and the existence of God, while coping with the distraction of his mentally unbalanced wife, Dorothy, a musical comedy star, and the murder investigation being conducted in their bedroom.
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Simon Russell Beale is a stocky man of medium height who looks as if he'd be ideal casting for Mr. Magoo's better-looking younger brother. You wouldn't tag him as instantly right in almost any other role, yet it turns out he can play anything from Hamlet to Sir Foppington Flutter in The Man of Mode to Doctor Pangloss in Candide to Uncle Vanya to Iago. He not only can, he has -- and with a persuasion that's put him at the top of London's leading-man heap. The alchemy by which he achieves his transitions is elusive; Beale seems to emit a silent signal that says, "I am this character and I challenge you to think otherwise."
Actually, the reason he's so astonishing in the revival of Tom Stoppa[...]