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Voyage is the first part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia, an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. Beginning in 1833, Voyage takes up the story of the future anarchist Michael Bakunin when his stage was still Premukhino, the Bakunin family estate, and Moscow under the repressive rule of Tsar Nicolas I, and when Michael and his four sisters, like many upper-class Russians of their generation, were in the thrall of German idealistic philosophy. 'I knew there were families,' remarks his friend, the brilliant young critic Vissarion Belinsky. 'I come from a family. But I had no idea.' But family life, with its passionate ties and conflagrations, all in the cause of exalted love and idealism, is left behind for ever when Michael at the age of twenty-six sets sail for Germany, waved goodbye by his newest friend, the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russian history, Alexander Herzen: the move from pure thought to revolutionary action is on the horizon.
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Tom Stoppard was born in 1937 in Czechoslovakia. His early years were spent in Singapore, India and, from 1946, England, after his mother married an officer in the British Army. Leaving school at seventeen, Stoppard worked as a reporter in Bristol, before moving to London to work as a theatre critic and feature writer. During this period he began to write plays for radio and for the stage and published his only novel, Lord Malquist and Mr Moon. His first major success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, was produced in London in 1967 at the Old Vic after critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival. Subsequent plays include Enter a Free Man, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with Andre Previn), After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia and Rock 'n' Roll. His radio plays include If You're Glad, I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died and In the Native State. Work for television includes Professional Foul and Squaring the Circle. His film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love (with Marc Norman) and Enigma.$$$In August 2002 the Royal National Theatre in London premièred Stoppard's trilogy - Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage - three sequential self-contained plays that comprise The Coast of Utopia.
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Item not as described, 16 Dec 2006
By Clifford Pearlman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Voyage: The Coast of Utopia Play 1 (The Stoppard trilogy) (Paperback)
While the title of the book is listed as "The Coast of Utopia (The Stoppard Trilogy)" it is in fact only volume one of the trilogy., Other books sold by amazon that are only one of the three parts are correctly described, but not this one.
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NOT AS DESCRIBED!!!, 23 Dec 2006
By L. Miller - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Voyage: The Coast of Utopia Play 1 (The Stoppard trilogy) (Paperback)
AGREE WITH OTHER REVIEWER. IT'S JUST "VOYAGE", THE FIRST PLAY OF THE SERIES. I THOUGHT BY HOW IT WAS DESCRIBED THAT IT WAS A CONDENSED VERSION OF THE WHOLE TRILOGY OF PLAYS. YOU CAN GET A PAPERBACK OF JUST "VOYAGE" FOR HALF THIS PRICE. I THINK THE PLAY ITSELF SOUNDS FANTASTIC, BUT, THIS PARTICULAR BOOK WAS MISREPRESENTED BY AMAZON'S DESCRIPTION. VERY DISAPPOINTING!!! (I WILL BE GETTING THE OTHER 2 PARTS OF THE PLAY AS THE PLAY ITSELF IS WONDERFUL).
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