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Background- "Jumpers", is a beautiful play that begins with a murder mystery but ends with some interesting revelation.

The Play "Jumpers" has been authored by Tom Stoppard, which is a detective story and is a bit extension of his earlier play "The Real Inspector Hound". The play is a metaphorical one which is about an inquiry into God and morality. The play centers around the acrobats and there is fine musical numbers in it. "Jumpers" is really one of the most intellectually stimulating play where in the audience is captured by the tremendous performances of the experienced acrobats leaping through the hoops, playing with words and also falling over themselves in attentive laughter. The play is clever, surreal and witty and some what resemble like circus.

The play raises some crucial questions such as "Does God exist?", "Is what is good and moral intrinsic and unchanging, or culturally relative?". The lines is delivered with great panache by the actors and even some of the throw-away lines catch the attention of the audience and makes them interested till the end of the play. "Jumpers" is a detective story. A party is thrown by Dorothy Moore, who is manically and depressive former nightclub singer. He gives the party to celebrate the accession of a new Radical Liberal government. It so happened that during the party Dorothy is brutally murdered. Mystery engulfs as to who has murdered him and so a detective steps in to solve the mystery that surround the death. But again there is a twist as the play proceeds George Moore who is a moral philosopher, is writing notes for a major debate and it is found that the dead acrobat and the logician are the same man! and by the end of the play, the audience is challenged, amused, confused but still this deadly combination is still extremely satisfying.

Tom Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia into a Jewish family, and had to leave their home when the Nazis invaded the country. His real name was Tom Strausslers. However his father remained behind and so was killed. Stoppard received his English education in India. Later, his mother married a British army major named Kenneth Stoppard, and it was him who gave the boy his English surname. Later,the family moved away from India to England in the year 1946. He finished his school and started working for Western Daily Press as a journalist. He developed a passion for writing and wrote his first play "A Walk on the Water", in the year 1960 which was later produced as Enter a Free Man. After some time, Stoppard worked as a drama critic for Scene, in London, from September 1962 until April 1963. He used to write reviews and interviews both under his name and also under the pseudonym William Boot (taken from Evelyn Waugh's Scoop). He also took active interests in political issues and also human rights and used to write various articles on these issues. In the year 1998, he was appointed CBE and was knighted in 1997. He was also co-opted into the Outrapo group.

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