Currently in previews, Lincoln Center Theater's production of Voyage, the first part of Tom Stoppard's three-part play The Coast of Utopia will open Monday, November 27th at 6:45 PM at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
This American premiere, which is performed by a company of over 44 actors lead by
Billy Crudup,
Richard Easton,
Jennifer Ehle,
Josh Hamilton,
David Harbour,
Jason Butler Harner,
Ethan Hawke,
Amy Irving,
Brían F. O'Byrne and
Martha Plimpton, is directed by
Jack O'Brien.
"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, the poet Nicholas Ogarev, 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 action of
The Coast of Utopia, which premiered at London's
National Theatre in 2002, begins in 1833 with
Part One – Voyage, set in the Russian countryside as well as in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Part Two - Shipwreck, begins thirteen years later outside Moscow and follows the characters' exile to Paris, Dresden, and Nice.
Part Three - Salvage, takes place over a period of twelve years in London and Geneva.
For further information and a complete performance schedule, please visit
www.coastofutopia.com.
Tickets to all three parts of
The Coast of Utopia, priced from $65 to $100, are available at the
Lincoln Center Theater box office, at
telecharge.com or by visiting
www.lct.org.
Photos by Paul Kolnik
Jennifer Ehle, Kellie Overbey, Amy Irving, Felicity LaFortune, Richard Easton, David Manis, Ethan Hawke, and Billy Crudup
Billy Crudup and Ethan Hawke
