Part One � Voyage

The third part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, currently in rehearsals, has rescheduled its opening from 15 Feb 2007 to 18 Feb 2007. The show will still begin previews on 30 Jan 2007.

Part One of The Coast of Utopia, Voyage, opened on 27 Nov 2006 and is currently being presented in rotation with Part 2, Shipwreck, which opened on 21 Dec 2006.

Both Part 1 - Voyage, and part 2 - Shipwreck, opened to positive notices. You can read what the popular press said about the shows here

The Lincoln Center Theatre's production of The Coast of Utopia trilogy stars Brian F. O'Byrne (Alexander Herzen), Billy Crudup (Vissarion Belinsky ), Josh Hamilton (Nicholas Ogarev), Ethan Hawke (Michael Bakunin), Jason Butler Harner (Ivan Turgenev), Amy Irving (Varvara Bakunin / Maria Ogarev), Jennifer Ehle (Liubov Bakunin/Natalie Herzen/Malwida von Meysenbug), David Harbour (Nicholas Stankevich/George Herwegh/Doctor), and Martha Plimpton (Varenka Bakunin/Natasha Tuchkov/ Natasha Ogarev).

Beginning in mid-19th century Russia during the repressive reign of Tsar Nicholas I, the play spans a period of thirty years as it tells the 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 action of The Coast of Utopia, which had its world premiere 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.

Part 1 and Part 2 are currently being presented in rotation. Part 3 will be added to the rotation schedule when it begins previews on 30 Jan 2007. There will be nine Saturday marathon productions (all three plays in one day) of the 8 hour trilogy: 24 Feb, 3 Mar, 10 Mar, 24 Mar, 30 Mar, 7 Apr, 21 Apr, 28 Apr and 5 May.