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Variations on the Death of Trotsky
''Variations on the Death of Trotsky'' is a short one-act comedy-drama written by David Ives for the series of one-act plays titled ''All in the Timing''.〔("All in the Timing, Six One-Act Comedies" ) dramatists.com, accessed February 8, 2014〕 The play fictionalizes the death of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky through a number of distinct variations, though all from the same, historically accurate cause: a wound to the head by an ice ax—referred to in the play as a "mountain-climber's ax", for comic effect, to distinguish it from an icepick.〔Andrucki, Martin.(" 'All in the Timing' Study Guide" ) thepublictheatre.org, November 1995, accessed February 8, 2014〕
==Overview==
While keeping with the tradition and style of Ives's plays of taking an odd conceit and playing it for laughs as the audience finds its feet before giving the big payoff, ''Variations'' is distinguished, along with ''Words, Words, Words'' and ''Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread'' in that, while it begins comically, it may end either comically or dramatically, depending on the production. It is unique in that, of all of his works, it calls the most for an unexpectedly tragic, sentimental ending. Arguably, it is also Ives' only piece centered around a single character (while ''Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread'' could be similarly considered, in fact the majority of that play is an ensemble piece).
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