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Vissarion Belinsky

The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

Tom Stoppard

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
1
Time & Place
The Herzen's house, day
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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It wouldn’t mean anything… in this din of hacks and famous names… filling their columns everyday with their bellowing and bleating and honking… It’s like a zoo where the seals throw fish to the public.

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They don’t know what success is. You have to be a writer in Russia. If the writers here only knew, they’d pack their bags for Moscow and St Petersburg.


For full extended monologue, please see the edition cited here: Stoppard, Tom. The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck. Act 1, “September 1847.” 2002.

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