Publisher's Synopsis
"Jumpers is simply dazzling. It takes your breath away with its sheer exuberance of literacy, its cascade of words and conspicuous display of intellect. It is also extraordinarily funny. Jumpers is one of the wittiest and most stimulating plays of the last decade or so."-Clive Barnes, New York Times
Murder, marriage, and metaphysics
link the bizarre series of events in this high-spirited comedy, winner of the Evening
Standard's Best Play Award. George Moore is an aging professor of moral
philosophy whose quest to compose a lecture on "Man-Good, Bad, or Indifferent?"
is put on hold while he ponders the existence of his sock. He is joined by his
youthful wife, Dotty, a former musical star on a downward spiral whose charm
may explain the corpse in the next room; George's specially trained hare,
Thumper; and a chorus of poorly trained gymnasts whose exploits set the stage
for this topsy-turvy world.
