A Full Cast of Supporting Players, With Very Few Demands

New York Times: "No casting calls were made to fill the roles of the 80 serfs that grace the stage of the Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Tom Stoppard’s “Coast of Utopia.” No agents were approached. In “Voyage” and “Shipwreck,” the first two parts of Mr. Stoppard’s trilogy about 19th-century Russian intellectuals and the societal fissures that would later erupt into revolution, the lowest class is represented not by actors grand or unknown, but by mannequins: specifically, headless, legless dress forms sheathed in the grim costumes of servitude. Had real actors been considered, the cast would have ballooned to 124 members."