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Jumpers is a 1972 play by Tom Stoppard. Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE (born 3 July 1937 is a British Screenwriter playwright It explores and satirises the field of academic philosophy, likening it to a highly skillful competitive gymnastics display. Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Gymnastics is a Sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength agility and coordination 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")). An astronaut or cosmonaut (космона́вт) is a person trained Logical positivism (later and more accurately called logical empiricism) is a school of philosophy that combines Empiricism, the idea that observational evidence is 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. A literary trope (from Greek τρόπος - tropos "turn" related to the root of τρέπω - trepō "to turn to direct
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. The Royal National Theatre, located on the South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England. The Old Vic is a Theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Sir Michael Murray Hordern ( 3 October 1911 &ndash 2 May 1995) was an English Actor, knighted in 1983 for his services Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (born 20 July 1938 is an English actress.
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