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A travesty is an absurd or grotesque misrepresentation, a parody, or grossly inferior imitation.In literary or theatrical contexts it may refer to: Burlesque, a literary, dramatic, or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects
Burlesque theatre became popular around the beginning of the Victorian era.The word "burlesque" is derived from the Italian burla, which means "ridicule or mockery". [2] [3] According to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Victorian burlesque was "related to and in part derived from pantomime and may be considered an extension of the introductory section of pantomime with the addition ...
2001: A Space Odyssey is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 1968.The soundtrack is known for its use of many classical and orchestral pieces, and credited for giving many classical pieces resurgences in popularity, such as Johann Strauss II's 1866 Blue Danube Waltz, Richard Strauss' symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, and György Ligeti's Atmosphères.
Travesti is a theatrical character in an opera, play, or ballet performed by a performer of the opposite sex. For social reasons, female roles were played by boys or men in many early forms of theatre, and travesti roles continued to be used in several types of context even after actresses became accepted on the stage.
Travesties is a 1974 play by Tom Stoppard.It centres on the figure of Henry Carr, an old man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zürich at that time.
Tranny Fag (Portuguese: Bixa Travesty) is a 2018 Brazilian documentary film directed by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman about Linn da Quebrada, a travesti Brazilian musician and activist whose tactics for confronting homophobia and transphobia include radical performance art, film, and music.
2001: A Space Travesty is a 2000 satirical sci-fi comedy film directed by Allan A. Goldstein and starring Leslie Nielsen, [2] [3] Ophélie Winter, Peter Egan, [4] and Ezio Greggio. The film has a few sequences satirizing elements of 2001: A Space Odyssey , but is not focused on parodying that film alone.
Virgile travesti is a parody of the Aeneid written by Paul Scarron in 1648. It was inspired by Giovanni Battista Lalli 's L'Eneide travestita (The Aeneid Disguised, 1633). [ 1 ] This early example of French burlesque literature [ 2 ] is notable for introducing the word travesty [ 3 ] into English . [ 4 ]