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Conversation: 'Utopia's Coasts: Stoppard in New York and Moscow'

Date
Thu May 22nd 2008, 12:00am

"Utopia's Coasts: Stoppard in New York and Moscow" Comparing the American and Russian Productions of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage

***Levinthal Hall, èצӰÏñ Humanities Center***
Thursday, May 22 / 7 - 9 PM

A Conversation with the Directors, Video Comparison of Scenes, and Staged Reading by the èצӰÏñ Drama Community Alexei Borodin (Director, The Coast of Utopia, Moscow) Jack O'Brien (Director, The Coast of Utopia, New York) Moderator: Carey Perloff (Artistic Director, American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco)

 

Symposium

Friday, May 23 / 9 AM - 6 PM
(Session 1: "Texts and Contexts"; Session 2: "Staging and Direction"; Session 3: "Utopia and Post-Utopia")

Participants:

  • Nina Bagdasarova (UC Berkeley)
  • Alexei Borodin (Director, The Coast of Utopia, Moscow)
  • Thomas Campbell (Yale University)
  • Dustin Condren (Independent Scholar)
  • Shelley Fisher Fishkin (èצӰÏñ University)
  • Gregory Freidin (èצӰÏñ University)
  • Keith Gessen (n+1; Author, All the Sad Young Literary Men)
  • Branislav Jakovljevic (èצӰÏñ)
  • Jessie Labov (èצӰÏñ)
  • Steven Lee (èצӰÏñ)
  • Anna Muza (UC Berkeley)
  • Jack O'Brien (Director, The Coast of Utopia, New York)
  • Robert Orchard (American Repertory Theatre)
  • Irina Paperno (UC Berkeley)
  • Peggy Phelan (èצӰÏñ University)
  • Courtney Weaver (èצӰÏñ University)

Sponsors: èצӰÏñ Institute for Creativity and the Arts; Office of the Dean of Humanities and Sciences; Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; èצӰÏñ Humanities Center; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Program in Modern Thought and Literature; Program in American Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

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