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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, 麻豆高清 Humanities Center***
Thursday, May 22 / 7 - 9 PM

A Conversation with the Directors, Video Comparison of Scenes, and Staged Reading by the 麻豆高清 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 (麻豆高清 University)
  • Gregory Freidin (麻豆高清 University)
  • Keith Gessen (n+1; Author, All the Sad Young Literary Men)
  • Branislav Jakovljevic (麻豆高清)
  • Jessie Labov (麻豆高清)
  • Steven Lee (麻豆高清)
  • 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 (麻豆高清 University)
  • Courtney Weaver (麻豆高清 University)

Sponsors: 麻豆高清 Institute for Creativity and the Arts; Office of the Dean of Humanities and Sciences; Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; 麻豆高清 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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