What is "travesties"

Travesty \Trav"es*ty\, n.; pl. Travesties. A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.

The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first.
--De Quincey.

n. (plural of travesty English)

Travesties is a play by Tom Stoppard.

The play centres on the figure of Henry Carr, an elderly 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.