Russian Academic Youth Theatre (RAMT) is in the process of rehearsing “The Coast of Utopia”, a trilogy by Sir Tom STOPPARD, prominent modern British playwright.
The opening night is scheduled for Oñtober, 2007.
The opening night is scheduled for Oñtober, 2007.
Tom STOPPARD is a living classic of modern dramaturgy famous for his experiments in language, dramatic forms and philosophy, laureate of many prestige prizes as the best dramatist and playwright. In 1999 he received Oscar Academy Award and Golden Globe award for “Shakespeare In Love” (Best script). Also laureate of many other awards: Evening Standard Award, Tony Award, New York Theater Critics prize.
As director, producer and scriptwriter he brightly filmed one of his most famous plays “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” (1990) and won Golden Lion, the Main of Venice cinema festival prize.
Sir Tom Stoppard is author of around two dozen plays (“Jumpers”, “Hapgood”, “Arcadia”, Travesties”, “Night and Day” etc) and a dozen screenplays.
“The Coast of Utopia” is a trilogy about Russian revolutionaries, writers, romantics and philosophers of the XIX century: Herzen, Belinsky, Ogarev, Bakunin, Turgenev and others. Brazen figures known to Russian public from school history books appear as real people who experience both a collapse of political illusions and a deep personal drama. While the characters are engaged in deciding on the future of their country and the world, new romances appear, families break apart, children grow up, friends die.
The play consists of three parts “Voyage”, “Shipwreck” and “Salvage”. The three may be regarded as independent pieces though they follow the same group of characters over a period of thirty years while the action moves from Russia to England and France. The author puts his thoughts about the fates of Russia and Europe, freedom and democracy into the mouths of his characters.
The trilogy was translated into Russian by brothers Arkady and Sergey OSTROVSKY.
The play was first staged in the Royal National Theatre, London (2002) and recently in the Lincoln Center Theatre, New York (2007)
Russian Academic Youth Theatre (RAMT) is one of the most popular theatres in Moscow. The company is considered one of the youngest and most successful. Peter Krasilov, Irina Nizina, Alexandere Ustjugov, Darja Semenova, Ilja Isajev, Nelli Uvarova and many other RAMT actors constantly become laureates of different contests and win prestige professional awards.
Today theater’s repertoire consists of productions of plays of Eugene Schwartz and Alexei Arbuzov, Alfred de Musset and Tennessee Williams, Fedor Dostojevski and Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain and Nikolai Nosov, Eugene Ionesco and William Golding, Boris Vasiljev and Boris Akunin, who wrote two of his plays “Yin-Yang. White version” («Èíü è ßí. Áåëàÿ âåðñèÿ») and “Yin-Yang. Black version” («Èíü è ßí. ×åðíàÿ âåðñèÿ») specifically for the theatre.
Alexey BORODIN has been Arts Director of RAMT for 25 years, he is a national artist of Russia, RF State prize laureate, twice Moscow Prize laureate for various productions. For many years he has been lecturing in RATI (Russian Academy of Theater Art) and many of his students work in RAMT. A. Borodin has also worked abroad in the theatres of Berlin and Reykjavik.
The production of the trilogy is preceded by a whole range of various cultural and educational events:
• movie festival “Tom Stoppard: highlights” – a retrospection of 5 films scripted by Sir Tom Stoppard including the famous “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”. The festival will take place in the film club “35mm” on February, 23-25, 2007.
• educational program “Walks along the Coast of Utopia” that encompasses a range of events: discussions, press-conferences and round tables with students of most prominent Moscow universities with the participation of Sir Tom Stoppard, Russian politicians, professors, sociologists, historians and culture figures.
First round table titled “Russia and the West, Problem of Cultural Translation” took place in the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) on October, 2 2006
“Stoppard’s Optics”, a discussion of the first part of the trilogy, was held in November 2006 and attracted attention of journalists, historians, professors, actors and university students.
The second round-table devoted to the topic “The Coast of Utopia: Russia in Search for Freedom and Liberation” was hosted by the Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU) on December, 4 and was attended by many public figures.
Next round-table titled “The Utopia in Russian” will take place in the State University Higher School of Economy on February, 26 2007.
Part of the educational program is two essay competitions among university students. The topics were “When Europe Spoke Russian” and “Freedom in Russian”. The results will be announced on April, 1 2007.
• publication of the trilogy “The Coast of Utopia” by the editor-house “Inostranka” (“Foreign Literature”). The book was presented to the public on December 2006 at the book fair “Non Fiction”.
As director, producer and scriptwriter he brightly filmed one of his most famous plays “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” (1990) and won Golden Lion, the Main of Venice cinema festival prize.
Sir Tom Stoppard is author of around two dozen plays (“Jumpers”, “Hapgood”, “Arcadia”, Travesties”, “Night and Day” etc) and a dozen screenplays.
“The Coast of Utopia” is a trilogy about Russian revolutionaries, writers, romantics and philosophers of the XIX century: Herzen, Belinsky, Ogarev, Bakunin, Turgenev and others. Brazen figures known to Russian public from school history books appear as real people who experience both a collapse of political illusions and a deep personal drama. While the characters are engaged in deciding on the future of their country and the world, new romances appear, families break apart, children grow up, friends die.
The play consists of three parts “Voyage”, “Shipwreck” and “Salvage”. The three may be regarded as independent pieces though they follow the same group of characters over a period of thirty years while the action moves from Russia to England and France. The author puts his thoughts about the fates of Russia and Europe, freedom and democracy into the mouths of his characters.
The trilogy was translated into Russian by brothers Arkady and Sergey OSTROVSKY.
The play was first staged in the Royal National Theatre, London (2002) and recently in the Lincoln Center Theatre, New York (2007)
Russian Academic Youth Theatre (RAMT) is one of the most popular theatres in Moscow. The company is considered one of the youngest and most successful. Peter Krasilov, Irina Nizina, Alexandere Ustjugov, Darja Semenova, Ilja Isajev, Nelli Uvarova and many other RAMT actors constantly become laureates of different contests and win prestige professional awards.
Today theater’s repertoire consists of productions of plays of Eugene Schwartz and Alexei Arbuzov, Alfred de Musset and Tennessee Williams, Fedor Dostojevski and Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain and Nikolai Nosov, Eugene Ionesco and William Golding, Boris Vasiljev and Boris Akunin, who wrote two of his plays “Yin-Yang. White version” («Èíü è ßí. Áåëàÿ âåðñèÿ») and “Yin-Yang. Black version” («Èíü è ßí. ×åðíàÿ âåðñèÿ») specifically for the theatre.
Alexey BORODIN has been Arts Director of RAMT for 25 years, he is a national artist of Russia, RF State prize laureate, twice Moscow Prize laureate for various productions. For many years he has been lecturing in RATI (Russian Academy of Theater Art) and many of his students work in RAMT. A. Borodin has also worked abroad in the theatres of Berlin and Reykjavik.
The production of the trilogy is preceded by a whole range of various cultural and educational events:
• movie festival “Tom Stoppard: highlights” – a retrospection of 5 films scripted by Sir Tom Stoppard including the famous “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”. The festival will take place in the film club “35mm” on February, 23-25, 2007.
• educational program “Walks along the Coast of Utopia” that encompasses a range of events: discussions, press-conferences and round tables with students of most prominent Moscow universities with the participation of Sir Tom Stoppard, Russian politicians, professors, sociologists, historians and culture figures.
First round table titled “Russia and the West, Problem of Cultural Translation” took place in the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) on October, 2 2006
“Stoppard’s Optics”, a discussion of the first part of the trilogy, was held in November 2006 and attracted attention of journalists, historians, professors, actors and university students.
The second round-table devoted to the topic “The Coast of Utopia: Russia in Search for Freedom and Liberation” was hosted by the Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU) on December, 4 and was attended by many public figures.
Next round-table titled “The Utopia in Russian” will take place in the State University Higher School of Economy on February, 26 2007.
Part of the educational program is two essay competitions among university students. The topics were “When Europe Spoke Russian” and “Freedom in Russian”. The results will be announced on April, 1 2007.
• publication of the trilogy “The Coast of Utopia” by the editor-house “Inostranka” (“Foreign Literature”). The book was presented to the public on December 2006 at the book fair “Non Fiction”.
