adapted from Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy
THE STORY: Two naughty grocer’s assistants go on a wild spree to Vienna when their master skips town with his new mistress. A free adaptation of the nineteenth-century farce by Johann Nestroy, ON THE RAZZLE is a boisterous reimagination of a classic.
“While preserving the beautiful intricacies of this construction, Stoppard has embellished RAZZLE with a dazzle of verbal wit an unremitting firework display of puns, crossword puzzle tricks and sly sexual innuendos.” —London Daily Telegraph.
“Tom Stoppard has always balanced his lambent intellectualism with a
certain cheeky playfulness, all the while toying with conventional notions of
dramaturgy and breaking new ground in the theatrical form. In ON THE
RAZZLE, first produced in the early 1980s, Stoppard gleefully abandons
any pretense of intellectual heft. A no-holds-barred farce, [RAZZLE] combines
Stoppard’s typically deft wordplay with groan-worthy puns of a notably
naughty stripe.” —Los Angeles Times
“In Tom Stoppard’s wonderful farce, ON THE RAZZLE, the humor relies on mistaken identities, lots of puns and malapropos, pratfalls, sex, and pomposity.” —DCMetroTheaterArts
