The Spectator, August 10th, 2002
Theatre The Coast of Utopia (Olivier) Al staggered out of the National last Saturday, having been cooped up in there for almost 12 hours, I half expected to be handed a T-shirt saying `I've seen The Coast of Utopia'. Tom Stoppard's long-- awaited new trilogy charts the lives of a group of 19th-century Russian intellectuals over three decades and it's such heavy going that for several hours at a stretch it feels like watching history unfold in real time. But if I was exhausted at the end of this gruelling ordeal, God knows how the actors must have felt. The Coast of Utopia is the most ambiti...
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