Jumpers
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Jumpers is a 1972 play by Tom Stoppard. It explores the field of academic philosophy, likening it to a highly skillful competitive gymnastics display. 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 Communists) have taken over the British government. 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.
The cast includes a number of acrobats and gymnasts who jump around quite a lot, and it also includes a man named Jumper and a moral philosopher who believes in metaphysical absolutes.
– Tom Stoppard, 'Conversations with Stoppard by Mel Gussow
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