The Coast of Utopia: Salvage | Critical Overview
In both the London and New York productions, the general critical consensus was that Salvage as the weakest of the three Coast of Utopia plays in terms of Stoppard’s writing. Many critics cited the first act as being particularly problematic, noting that Stoppard’s blending of theory and rhetoric with human drama was least successful in Salvage. Critics inclined to use words like “dry” and “stuffy” in their analyses of Voyage and Shipwreck employed similar terminology in their appraisal of Salvage.
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