Jumpers

Jumpers combines futuristic farce with burlesque, political satire, philosophy, and a plot-twisting murder mystery to create what playwright Tom Stoppard calls his “theatre of audacity.” The play opens at a decadent house party celebrating the political victory of the Radical Liberal Party, hosted by a manic-depressive former chanteuse. When one of the acrobats entertaining the party is murdered, the hostess must hide the body in her bedroom at the request of her gymnastic physician, and all under the nose of her perplexed husband, a professor of moral philosophy, who is desperately trying to finish his lecture “Is God?” Adding a bumbling detective and moonstruck cabaret numbers to the play’s more serious questions about faith, morality, and modern science, Stoppard achieves “a thrilling, seriously exciting, life-enriching play” (Sunday Times).

No matinees final week.