LaCageFans: THE COAST OF UTOPIA Part 1-3 Reviews

[LaCageAuxFollesFan2]

Posted: 2/9/07 at 5:00pm

VOYAGE
https://nycriticscorner.broadwayworld.com/thecoastofutopiavoyage.htm

SHIPWRECK
https://nycriticscorner.broadwayworld.com/thecoastofutopiashipwreck.htm

SALVAGE
https://nycriticscorner.broadwayworld.com/thecoastofutopiasalvage.htm

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 2/9/07 at 5:08pm

Glad you liked them. I concurr whole-heartedly about the 1st 2 parts (seeing the 3rd in a week). O'Byrne and Ehle are delivering tour-de-force performances, as are Crudup and Hawke. I wonder how the actors will be ruled at the Tony Awards. They all seem like sure-shots.

My one question about your review of Salvage - is Plimpton's character Natasha or Natalie? You mention Natasha once and Natalie the other times (Hertzen falls in love with Natalie...)

[LaCageAuxFollesFan2]

Posted: 2/10/07 at 2:13pm

So sorry - it's Natasha. Keeping complete track of 9 hours of Tom Stoppard was almost impossible - so I appologize for the name mess-up. I ultimatley THOROUGHLY enjoyed almost all of UTOPIA - but something about the end of Part 3 just really felt off to me.

[Miss Mona]

Posted: 2/18/07 at 2:16pm

You are plagarizing reviews again, sweetie.

You say...

"Of all the performances, it is again Brian F. O'Byrne who never disappoints and here gives the enormous single role of Alexander Herzen an intelligence and a humanity which is credible and enormously likeable. Herzen as a thinker seems a man ahead of his time."

CurtainUp London said...

"Of the performances, Stephen Dillane never disappoints and here gives the enormous single role of Alexander Herzen an intelligence, a humanity which is credible and enormously likeable. Herzen as a thinker seems a man ahead of his time."

You say...

"Billy Crudup is terrific as the socially inept and consumptive Belinsky who has political vision. His racking, tubercular cough is like nothing ever heard in the theatre before"

CurtainUp London said...

"Will Keen is terrific as the socially inept and consumptive Belinsky who has political vision. His racking, tubercular cough is like nothing I have heard in the theatre"

You say...

"Jack O'Brien's direction is beautifully assured and this play will be remembered as the pinnacle of his art. Visually it is exciting. There is brilliant use of the turning, circular stage and scene changes are beautifully executed with the shifters in character."

CurtainUp London said...

"Trevor Nunn's direction, recalling both his recent productions of Gorky's Summerfolk and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, gives us the silent, leg ragged, bearded, downward looking serfs waiting in the background to remind us of the oppressed substructure supporting the lifestyle of the Russian gentry. His direction is beautifully assured and this play will be remembered as the pinnacle of his art as he leaves the National Theatre next Spring. Visually it is exciting. There is brilliant use of the turning, circular stage, for the pleasure of ice skating to conveying political turmoil. Scene changes are beautifully executed with the shifters in character"

This poster's plagarized review...

https://nycriticscorner.broadwayworld.com/thecoastofutopiasalvage.htm

The CurtainUp review which he stole from...

https://www.curtainup.com/coastofutopia.html

[C is for Company]

Posted: 2/18/07 at 3:01pm

Oh damn, Miss Mona, defending the personal ideas of others from the clutches of the plagiarizing posters! Do you work at a college? You'd be pretty good at kicking people out for that sort of thing.

[OSUBuckly]

Posted: 2/18/07 at 3:03pm

Oh snap!

Good find, Miss Mona. What kind of person rips off reviews? A late term paper on the Titanic is one thing, but your own personal opinion? That is kind of sad.

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 2/18/07 at 8:21pm

Sad, sad. This is why it is dangerous to be swayed by so-called critics.

Whether Broadway, off-Broadway or off-off-Broadway, go see the show. Then make your own opinion- and share it to friends, not the masses.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 2/18/07 at 8:35pm

He does this all the time and should truly be ashamed. There's a reason no one takes his reviews seriously -- the ones that aren't plagiarized and are actually written by him are filled with errors of grammar, spelling, syntax and usage (not to mention that his opinions and conclusions are usually of questionable taste). Either way, reading him is a waste of time.

[AC126748]

Posted: 2/18/07 at 8:38pm

Wow. BroadwayWorld has its very own Kaavya Viswanathan!

[AC126748]

Posted: 2/18/07 at 8:50pm

I can't wait for the "I'm so so so sorry, I didn't realize I was doing it..." mea culpa.

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 2/18/07 at 10:23pm

Which would be the second or third time now... yes?

"Either way, reading him is a waste of time."

This I disagree with. I think it is a lot of fun reading his reviews and trying to spot the stolen parts!

Why doesn't LaCage change his screen name and pretend to be some other prentious plagiarizer? At this point does anyone take him seriously?

kmc