New York : The second part in Tom Stoppard's trilogy of plays, The Coast of Utopia , opens today at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Starring in Shipwreck is Billy Crudup as Vissarion Belinsky, Richard Easton as Leonty Ibayev, Jennifer Ehle as Natalie Herzen, Josh Hamilton as Nicholas Ogarev, David Harbour as George Herwegh, Jason Butler Harner as Ivan Turgenev, Ethan Hawke as Michael Bakunin, Amy Irving as Maria Ogarev, Brían F. O'Byrne as Alexander Herzen, and Martha Plimpton as Natasha Tuchkov.
Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia comprises three parts - Voyage , Shipwreck , and Salvage (opens February 15th). All of the three parts will finish their runs on May 13th. During the last weeks of the run, audiences will be able to see all three parts in succession. On February 24th, March 3rd, 24th, 31st, April 7th, 21st, 28th, and May 5th all three parts will play in marathon beginning at 11am.
The creative team includes direction by Jack O'Brien, set design by Bob Crowley, set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Catherine Zuber, lighting design by Natasha Katz, Brian MacDevitt, and Kenneth Posner, and music and sound design by Mark Bennett.
Beginning in mid-19th century Russia during the repressive reign of Tsar Nicholas I, Tom Stoppard’s sweeping epic spans a period of thirty years as it tells the panoramic story of a group of Russian intellectuals, headed by the radical theorist and editor Alexander Herzen, the novelist Ivan Turgenev, the literary critic Vissarion Belinsky and the aristocrat-turned-anarchist Michael Bakunin, who lead a band of like-minded countrymen in a revolutionary movement in which they strive to change and fix a political system by using their minds as their only weapon.
The series was first seen in 2002 at London's National Theatre.
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