Review: The Coast of Utopia (The Coast of Utopia)
Nutzerbericht - Dominic - GoodreadsI certainly don't recommend this play to everyone. When Coast of Utopia made its Broadway debut it was described as ,"the ultimate snob ticket" which should give audiences clues on the context. I will ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Coast of Utopia (The Coast of Utopia)
Nutzerbericht - Hank Lin - GoodreadsStoppard comes apart a bit in his grandiosity. I would argue he's a writer fixated on duality, finding grand conversations about minute things or mundane conversations in grandiose settings. This can ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Coast of Utopia (The Coast of Utopia)
Nutzerbericht - David - Goodreads1. When I first heard that Tom Stoppard had written a 9 hour play about 19th Century Russian intellectuals, my first thought was, "Yeah, that pretty much had to happen." 2. It's wonderfully ambitious ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Coast of Utopia (The Coast of Utopia)
Nutzerbericht - Алёна - GoodreadsThe staggering work of genius scenarist. Brilliant dialogues, the spirit of russian emigration. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Coast of Utopia (The Coast of Utopia)
Nutzerbericht - Katya - GoodreadsSuper! A really Russsian in spirit, outrageously witty and heartbreakingly sad play. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Coast of Utopia (The Coast of Utopia)
Nutzerbericht - Maddie Ricchiuto - GoodreadsCoast of Utopia is a long and ponderous tale of one family's troubles, and while it drags, there is something about it that makes you keep reading anyway. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage (The Coast of Utopia)
Nutzerbericht - Brittany Petruzzi - GoodreadsStoppard takes 345 pages and approximately nine hours of stage time to explore and reject every philosophical ideal under the sun. Finally he seems to settle on nihilism, only to reject that, too ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Coast of Utopia (The Coast of Utopia)
Nutzerbericht - Ross Wagenhofer - GoodreadsI always gets the sense when reading Stoppard that the man has access to some vastly deeper reservoir of intellect that I could ever possibly hope to mine. Indeed, in this trilogy of plays, this ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage (The Coast of Utopia)
Nutzerbericht - Greg Heaton - GoodreadsReading the first play was vaguely baffling. The second was lovely. The third incomprehensible. Perhaps I should see it live. It also seemed entirely lacking the spark of Stoppard's unique wit. But I learned a lot about Russians post-Decembrists and pre-Lenin. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Coast of Utopia (The Coast of Utopia)
Nutzerbericht - Jessica - GoodreadsThere is an unexpected humor in this book, even when the subject matter is rather dark. It can be a challenge to follow at times due to the fact that the narration jumps forward and backward through ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
