Transcript: Profile: Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia" looks at the old Russian intelligentsia

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Profile: Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia" looks at the old Russian intelligentsia

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In London this fall, outings to the theater are getting to be both shorter and longer. Several 90-minute one-act shows have premiered. So have--so has--forgive me--three-day-long play cycles. Most prominent has been a nine-and-a-half hour trilogy by Tom Stoppard. Now over the last 40 years, Mr. Stoppard has written about a virtuosity of subjects ranging from mathematical theory to Shakespeare in love. His new epic, and his most ambitious and challenging work yet is about the old Russian intelligentsia. Fred ...

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