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Coast Of Utopia
April 1, 2007 | Filed Under Theater | No Comments
And I survived the marathon!
The plays started at 11am and ended at 11pm (with an hour and a half for both lunch and dinner). As we came out, they gave everyone a button that said “I Ran A Marathon” (which I thought was very sweet). So how was it? Overall it was tremendous! The play was about these Russian characters from a period after the war with Napoleon to just prior to Communism toppling the last Tsar. We go from Russia to Paris too Italy to London and end in Geneva. The characters were for the most part real people who had lived during this period. So we are talking about a HUGE amount of information… most of which you or I never learned in school. Which is not bad – but with Stoppard (and I have read more than a few of his plays) you can start to feel swamped. Or stupid. There are times where you either want him to slow down so you can catch your breath or rewind him so you can brace yourself and hear his argument again. (That is why you buy the scripts – like I did)
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