 | |  | | The Coast of Utopia | Nominated for 10 Awards
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| | Tom Stoppard’s trilogy features 44 actors playing 70 roles, covering three decades of Russian life and history. In the mid-19th century as revolution swept across Europe, a group of Russian intellectuals, journalists, critics, philosophers, poets, and their friends tried to topple the Tsar. Stoppard’s epic follows these men and women over 30 years, as their intertwined lives, passions and dreams drive them in pursuit of perfection. Part one, Voyage, is set at the grand Russian countryside estate of the Bakunin family. Four eligible sisters are under the sway of their charismatic brother, Michael (Ethan Hawke), who interferes in their lives, while fervently seeking a greater purpose in his own through a political and philosophical journey. The second part, Shipwreck, centers on the visionary Russian leader Alexander Herzen (Brían F. O’Byrne) and his fellow revolutionaries who find inspiration as well as frustration in exile in Paris and London as the revolution of 1848 unfolds. In the final section, Salvage, Herzen and his comrades look back from the vantage point of their exile in England at their dreams of overturning the Tsar, and at the Russia of their memory. Watch a discussion of The Coast of Utopia on Working in the Theatre.
Author: Tom Stoppard
Producers: Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, Bernard Gersten, Bob Boyett |
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| History
The Coast of Utopia trilogy first appeared in 2002 at the National Theatre in England. Voyage opened on Broadway on November 26, 2006; Shipwreck on December 21; and Salvage on February 18, 2007.
| | | | About the Author: | | Playwright Tom Stoppard has previously received five Tony nominations, winning three. He won in 1968 for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in 1976 for Travesties, and in 1984 for The Real Thing. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1997. |
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