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	The Coast of Utopia - Tom Stoppard
		"With The Coast of Utopia, though, the diligent researcher is too often in evidence at the expense of the playwright.
		Lacking that compressed action, The Coast of Utopia remains a series of portentous book reports that skim over the surface of its subjects without ever penetrating the core of their being.
		The Coast of Utopia is a trilogy of plays describing the rise of revolutionary Russia -- not what came in 1905 or 1917 but the first efforts, generations earlier.
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	Amazon.com: The Coast of Utopia: Books: Tom Stoppard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Coast of Utopia is Tom Stoppard's long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term intelligentsia was coined.
		In The Coast of Utopia, Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and practical reformation in this chronicle of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in a struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors.
		The other backdrop for Coast of Utopia is the political and social unrest in Europe, including the various revolutions of 1848, and the development of socialist/communist political theory.
	www.amazon.com /Coast-Utopia-Tom-Stoppard/dp/0802140033 (1804 words)

	Stephen Dillane in The Coast of Utopia
		The early word on "The Coast of Utopia" was daunting: a nine-hour political debate, freely adapted from Isaiah Berlin's book of essay on "Russian Thinkers." Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Chaadaev, Nicholas Ogarev: discuss their theories of social progress.
		The pleasures of "Utopia," which is presented as a fairly straightforward narrative by Stoppard standards, are those of a fat novel that for all its long-windedness is a page turner.
		Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia" is made up of three self-contained, but sequential plays which trace a group of 19th century Russian radicals caught in a struggle for political freedom.
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	Telegraph \| Arts \| Excellent in parts but less than Utopian
		Coast of Utopia: 'It has often been said that Stoppard flatters audiences into feeling cleverer than they actually are.
		Yet as someone who has always revered Stoppard, it pains me to report that there are long, long stretches of The Coast of Utopia that appear to have been written with perspiration rather than inspiration.
		Yet if The Coast of Utopia is more like a vast curate's egg than a fully achieved epic masterpiece, parts of it are truly excellent.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/08/05/btstop05.xml (1239 words)

	The Very Best Books : The Coast of Utopia
		The Coast of Utopia is Tom Stoppard's long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term intelligentsia was coined.
		In The Coast of Utopia, Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and practical reformation in this chronicle of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in a struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors.
		Tom Stoppard is arguably the single finest playwright of his generation, and the Coast of Utopia trilogy is a massive undertaking that in the hands of a less skilled author could have gone awry and badly.
	www.elise.com /store/0802140033/The_Coast_of_Utopia.html (179 words)

	Stephen Dillane in The Coast of Utopia
		In the event, Voyage, the first third of the trilogy The Coast of Utopia, is centred on Bakunin and his family circle; Belinsky appears in Voyage and Shipwreck; and Herzen becomes the focus of Shipwreck and Salvage.
		Isaiah Berlin is The Coast of Utopia 's presiding spirit, but it was Carr's The Romantic Exiles, as well as his terrific biography of Bakunin, which impelled the expansion.
		Yet in his fervent identification with Herzen, now the moral centre of The Coast of Utopia, one finds a pointer both to the creative impulse underlying the trilogy and as good a summation as one is likely to get of the credo behind Stoppard's intellectually nomadic art.
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	The Coast of Utopia \| Theatre Reviews \| tobyyoung.co.uk
		The Coast of Utopia is the most ambitious production the National has ever staged, with 30 actors playing 70 different roles.
		The problem with The Coast of Utopia is that Stoppard doesn't deliver nearly enough lowbrow theatrical magic to bring these highbrows to life.
		Berlin's view, which is echoed again and again in The Coast of Utopia, is that all schools of thought that revolve around a single, all-encompassing idea, whether it's the march of history or the triumph of reason, run aground when they come up against the "facts".
	www.tobyyoung.co.uk /169/the_coast_of_utopia.html (740 words)

	Stephen Dillane in The Coast of Utopia
		And so what is extraordinary about The Coast of Utopia is the degree to which each play isn't about their ideas, isn't about their writing, isn't about the climate of Tsarist censorship against which these writers struggled, though all those things are certainly there in good measure.
		With The Coast of Utopia, though, the diligent researcher is too often in evidence at the expense of the playwright.
		The Coast of Utopia is a theatrical feast, covering the hopes and dreams of a visionary group of people as they seek to overthrow the injustices of 19th century society.
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	at_web1102_stoppard.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Utopia unattainable is the topic of his grand-scale new trilogy.
		As the banner title for Stoppard's plays suggests, The Coast of Utopia is brave enough to hint at the fact that we may never reach that promised land, doomed as we are instead to inhabit a dystopic reality that constitutes a separate realm altogether.
		And whatever else the legacy left by The Coast of Utopia, no one will ever again be able to accuse Nunn’s National of preferring the tried-and-tested old to the shock and scope of the new.
	www.tcg.org /am_theatre/at_articles/AT_Volume_19/November02/at_web1102_stoppard.html (1557 words)

	The Big Interview: Douglas Henshall in The Coast Of Utopia \| London Theatre Guide
		But his role in The Coast Of Utopia at the National Theatre is his first stage appearance in six years, and with a nine-hour running time, he’s not doing anything by halves, as he explains to Laura North.
		The first thing that strikes you about Tom Stoppard's trilogy is its scale. The Coast Of Utopia spans over 30 years of Russian history and embraces the politics of more than 70 characters.
		The Coast Of Utopia itself, with all its multiple shifts in location and perspective, is ideal fodder for film.
	www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /news/biginterview/display?contentId=73482 (1299 words)

	Aisle Say (London): Utopia
		We realize early on that Ted is seriously unstable and that Utopia is only the latest of his hair-brained schemes.
		Tom Stoppard’s panoramic and overly didactic trilogy, "The Coast of Utopia", takes nine hours, uses up three slots in the Olivier, the largest of the three spaces at the National, and has a cast of thousands - actually 32 actors playing 70 nineteenth century idealists and political dissidents.
		The theme of The Coast of Utopia is similar to that of the other plays I saw this summer: although man tends to be dissatisfied with his state and dreams of finding or creating a Utopia, he is doomed to failure, given his own imperfect nature and also the uncertainty of human affairs.
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	Telegraph \| Opinion
		Last Saturday saw the press night of Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage, which together make up his trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, now playing at the National Theatre: I was there from 11am until 11pm to see all of them.
		But it seems to me that, sceptic that he is, Stoppard has a Utopia all of his own - Britain, or rather not Britain but England, the England of freedom in which, idealised in these plays, Herzen finds asylum.
		The Coast of Utopia is a tract for the times.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/08/05/do0501.xml (1162 words)

	Stoppard fans deserve to see 'Coast' onstage, not just on page
		Critics described "The Coast of Utopia'' in any number of ways during its sold-out run at London's National Theatre two years ago, but "a sure thing'' wasn't one of them.
		This highlights Stoppard's overarching theme in "The Coast of Utopia'': the yawning, frequently dangerous chasm separating well- intentioned theoretical pronunciamentos from the sweaty, unending challenges of making society just, and love last.
		We know the odds of a deep- pocketed angel happening by are long -- even if "The Coast of Utopia'' evinces considerably less sympathy for Karl Marx, who gets a brief and decidedly unflattering cameo, than for Herzen, his humane, gradualist, deeply decent fellow scribbler.
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	The Coast of Utopia Tickets : Marathon
		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 for the cause of freedom.
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	"the coast of utopia" at the royal national theatre london
		"the coast of utopia" at the royal national theatre london
		Yet, household, and all the images this word conjures up, of nucleus, of family, of community, forms the core of Tom Stoppard's ambitious new trilogy of plays, gathered under the umbrella title The Coast of Utopia and given a sparkling debut at the National's Olivier Theatre.
		Like "The Invention of Love", "Arcadia", and a number of other titles in the lengthy and impressive Stoppard canon, Utopia is potential debilitatingly dry historical fact brought to vibrant, human and often very humorous life by the playwright's singular genius for character insight and astonishing repartee.
	www.theater2k.com /Utopia110702.html (699 words)

	American Theatre: Unstoppable Stoppard: Utopia unattainable is the topic of his grand-scale new trilogy.(Tom Stoppard's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Unstoppable Stoppard: Utopia unattainable is the topic of his grand-scale new trilogy.(Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour)(Theater Review)
		Month late; he opened the most ambitious theatrical undertaking of his career-a nine-hour trilogy of plays under the collective title The Coast of Utopia.
		That pretty much tells you all you need to know about this dramatist's refusal in any way to wind down as he continues on with as singular a career as the British theatre has known.
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	London theatre tickets play Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia - Voyage / Shipwreck / Salvage on stage in London's West ...
		On 7 February 2001: The National Theatre announced a number of future plans which included the staging of 'a major new trilogy by Tom Stoppard to be directed by Trevor Nunn' in the Olivier Theatre.
		On 10 May 2002: It was announced that the first play in Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia would preview on 27 July.
		The Coast of Utopia gives voice to a philosophy of moderation dear to Stoppard's heart: respect for the individual over the collective and hatred for theories of history that sanctify the bloody sacrifice of the present as a necessary step towards some blissful illusory destination...
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	Theater Review - Johnson's Russia List 12-6-02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		These would be the members of the Russian intelligentsia of the early 1800s--the very writers and thinkers for whom the word was coined, and from whom came the ideas that would shape much of world history for the next two centuries.
		Stoppard brings them to theatrical life in a trilogy of new plays called The Coast of Utopia, which (reports are not exaggerated) clocks over nine hours and involves a company of more than thirty actors, playing dozens of roles and charting their lives over four decades and almost as many continents.
		A writer of brilliance and imagination who dares to navigate the deep waters of history, philosophy and ideas, Stoppard is distinguished now more than ever as he travels along the Coasts of Utopia with such a beautiful retinue.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/6591-18.cfm (1434 words)

	village voice > theater > by J. Yeh
		LONDON—With the Coast of Utopia trilogy—Tom Stoppard's first work for the stage since The Invention of Love in 1997—lavishly mounted at London's National Theatre, the onetime Voice writer and playwright is riding high.
		Gleefully taking advantage of his position—name another author who could get three three-hour plays produced simultaneously—Stoppard offers a sprawling meditation on the individual's responsibility in an unjust society (or, pace Nick Hornby, how to be good).
		Asked in a TV interview whether his work played fast and loose with history, the author called his method, on the contrary, "very slow and tight." Perhaps he should have taken more liberties with the facts—The Coast of Utopia, for all its eloquence, has surprisingly little to say.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0235/yeh.php (832 words)

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	BBC - London - Entertainment - News - Stoppard marathon wins first night ovation, atmosphere at end of The Coast of ...
		The sold-out premiere of The Coast of Utopia was followed by three curtain calls and an enthusiastic ovation, a spokeswoman for the theatre said.
		About 1,000 people watched all three parts, she continued, while the rest of the audience in the 1,150 capacity Olivier auditorium were watching only one or two parts.
		The Coast of Utopia is a sequence of essentially self-contained plays telling the stories of notorious Russian radicals fighting for political freedom in the 19th Century.
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	Voyage (Stoppard, Tom. Coast of Utopia, Pt. 1.) - Tom Stoppard
		Comment: Tom Stoppard is arguably the single finest playwright of his generation, and the Coast of Utopia trilogy is a massive undertaking that in the hands of a less skilled author could have gone awry and badly.
		The history is neither dominate or secondary to the characterization here, rather Stoppard manages to make the historical events we know (or may not know) part and parcel of the volatile and fascinating lives of some of Russias greatest citizens.
		Comment: Stoppard's latest work, the Coast of Utopia trilogy, purports to examine the great minds of Russian philosophy who have been forgotten by the west, the men who built up the age of revolutions.
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	Spectator, The: Gruelling ordeal
		Al staggered out of the National last Saturday, having been cooped up in there for almost 12 hours, I half expected to be handed a T-shirt saying `I've seen The Coast of Utopia'.
		By 10.45 on Saturday night, when the curtain mercifully came down for the last time, all the actors, as well as every member of the audience, looked as though they needed a fortnight's holiday in the Caribbean to recuperate.
		The problem with The Coast of Utopia is that Stoppard doesn't deliver nearly enough low-brow theatrical magic to bring these high-brows to life.
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	Theater Pro
		As Tom Stoppard celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday, his fascinating new trilogy, “The Coast of Utopia,” has opened at the National Theatre in London.
		This is Stoppard’s most serious work so far, dealing with a group of mid-nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals who seek philosophical political solutions for their country, tyrannized by Czar Nicholas I, with censorship and exile for the intelligentsia and slavery for the serfs.
		He always was tidy.” Stoppard’s own deft answer, when asked whether his plays were intended to be serious or comic: “It’s a matter of taste whether one says they’re wonderfully frivolous saddened by occasional seriousness, or whether there’s a serious play irredeemably ruined by the frivolous side of this man’s nature.” Performance schedule: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk.
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