Conversation: 'Utopia's Coasts: Stoppard in New York and Moscow'
"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,
°®åú´«Ã½ Humanities Center***
Thursday, May 22 / 7 -
9 PM
A Conversation with the Directors, Video Comparison of Scenes, and Staged Reading by the °®åú´«Ã½ 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 (°®åú´«Ã½ University)
- Gregory Freidin (°®åú´«Ã½ University)
- Keith Gessen (n+1; Author, All the Sad Young Literary Men)
- Branislav Jakovljevic (°®åú´«Ã½)
- Jessie Labov (°®åú´«Ã½)
- Steven Lee (°®åú´«Ã½)
- 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 (°®åú´«Ã½ University)
- Courtney Weaver (°®åú´«Ã½ University)
Sponsors: °®åú´«Ã½ Institute for Creativity and the Arts; Office of the Dean of Humanities and Sciences; Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; °®åú´«Ã½ 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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