Charles Isherwood Was Bored. Why? Discuss.

The New York Times’ Charles Isherwood proclaimed his boredom with Tom Stoppard’s “Coast of Utopia” trilogy in a Sunday essay published mere days into previews of Part 3. With the play having opened, Michael Feingold asks, “What causes Charles’s boredom? Having now seen Salvage, The Coast of Utopia’s closing chapter, and having been less actively bored than Charles, but less enthralled than many others, I think I can offer some tentative explanations.”