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T01043768001Company Royal National Theatre. Director Trevor Nunn. Design William Dudley. Lighting David Hersey. Choreographer David Bolger. Performer Thomas Arnold. Performer Eve Best. Performer John Carlisle. Performer Martin Chamberlain. Performer Raymond Coulthard. Performer Simon Day. Performer Felicity Dean. Performer Stephen Dillane. Performer Janine Duvitski. Performer Charlotte Emmerson. Performer Rachel Ferjani. Performer Guy Henry. Performer Douglas Henshall. Performer Richard Hollis. Performer Jack James. Performer Will Kean. Performer Jennifer Scott Maldon. Performer Sarah Manton. Performer Anna Maxwell Martin. Performer Iain Mitchell. Performer John Nolan. Performer Paul Ritter. Performer Nick Sampson. Performer Jonathan Slinger. Performer Janet Specer-Turner. Performer Kemal Sylvester. Performer Sam Troughton. Performer David Verry. Performer Lucy Whybrow. | |
| 8 Jul 02 to 23 Nov 02 | Olivier (National Theatre), West End :: V373 listing details L1526712553 |
The Coast of Utopia comprises three sequential but self-contained plays, 'Voyage', 'Shipwreck' and 'Salvage'. They tell an epic story of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in the struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors. Set in the mid-19th century in Russia and Europe, the trilogy follows a group of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I. Among them are the idealist and anarchist Michael Bakunin who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman's son and the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russian history, who becomes the main focus of a drama of politics, love, , loss and betrayal. The action, involving more than fifty characters, takes in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris, Nice and London.
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