A 6' Ginger Cat Toasting Hegelian Absolutes

"I don't understand why it's called Romanticism!" wails Natalie Beyer as, yet again, Nicholas Stankevich - a young and intense (and rather Gothic) Russian philosopher - fails to notice her flirtation. He's trying to tell her about Hegel and Kant: she's trying to tell him she's in Lurve. And we see that Tom Stoppard still has it in for philosophers. They all have a miserable time in 'Voyage', the first part of the Coast of Utopia trilogy. (See it at the National Theatre). ( more ... )