Chicago Theater Review: TRAVESTIES (Remy Bumppo at Greenhouse Theater Center)
ON THE HORNS OF HISTORY Imagine history as a roller coaster–more specifically, Oscar Wide's masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest transmogrified into cerebral vaudeville. Erupting for nearly three hours of whimsical exuberance, Tom Stoppard's 1974 Travesties (here enhanced with later rewrites) is a deliberately dazzling, ostentatiously intellectual tour de talk. Its entire comic apparatus is b…