Tom Stoppard - Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia, Part II

Shipwreck

THE COAST OF UTOPIA PART II

Tom Stoppards other work includes Enter a Free Man, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with Andre Previn), After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink and The Invention of Love. His radio plays include: If Youre Glad, Ill Be Frank, Alberts Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died and In the Native State. His work for television includes Professional Foul and Squaring the Circle. His film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love (with Marc Norman) and Enigma.

PLAYS
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead*
Enter a Free Man*
The Real Inspector Hound*
After Magritte*
Jumpers*
Travesties*
Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land*
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour*
Night and Day
Doggs Hamlet and Cahoots Macbeth*
The Real Thing
Rough Crossing
Hapgood
Arcadia
Indian Ink
The Invention of Love*
Voyage: The Coast of Utopia Part I*
Salvage: The Coast of Utopia Part III*

TELEVISION SCRIPTS
A Separate Peace
Teeth
Another Moon Called Earth
Neutral Ground
Professional Foul
Squaring the Circle

RADIO PLAYS
The Dissolution of Dominic Boot
M Is for Moon Among Other Things
If Youre Glad, Ill Be Frank
Alberts Bridge
Where Are They Now?
Artist Descending a Staircase
The Dog It Was That Died
In the Native State

SCREENPLAYS
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Shakespeare in Love (with Marc Norman)

FICTION
Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon

* Available from Grove Press

THE COAST OF UTOPIA PART II

TOM STOPPARD

Copyright 2002 by Tom Stoppard

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First-class professional, stock, and amateur applications for permission to perform it, and those other rights stated above, must be made in advance to Peters, Fraser & Dunlop, Drury House, 34-43 Russell Street, London, WC2B 5HA, England, ATTN: Kenneth Ewing, and must pay the requisite fee, whether the play is presented for charity or gain and whether or not admission is charged.

First published in hardback and paperback in 2002 by Faber and Faber Limited, London, England

Printed in the United States of America

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stoppard, Tom.
Shipwreck / Tom Stoppard.
p. cm. (The Coast of Utopia; pt. 2)
eBook ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9530-2
1. Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870Drama. 2. Bakunin, Mikhail
Aleksandrovich, 18141876Drama. 3. Belinsky, Vissarion Grigoryevich,
18111848Drama. 4. RussiansFranceDrama. 5. RevolutionariesDrama.
6. Paris (France)Drama. 7. AnarchistsDrama. I. Title.
PR6069.T6S54 2003
822.914dc21 2003042186

Grove Press
841 Broadway
New York, NY 10003

03 04 05 06 07 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

I am gratefully indebted to Trevor Nunn
for encouraging me towards some additions
and subtractions while The Coast of Utopia
was in rehearsal

I would like to thank, first, Aileen Kelly, who has written extensively about Alexander Herzen and Mikhail Bakunin. I am indebted to her for her kindness as well as her scholarship. Moreover, Dr Kelly is, with Henry Hardy, who also has my gratitude for our exchanges, the coeditor of the book which was my entry to the world of The Coast of Utopia, namely Russian Thinkers, a selection of essays by Isaiah Berlin. Berlin is one of two authors without whom I could not have written these plays, the other being E. H. Carr, whose The Romantic Exiles is in print again after nearly seventy years, and whose biography of Bakunin deserves to be. I received valuable help from Helen Rappaport on Russian matters in general. I am particularly indebted to her for Russian translation, including lines of dialogue. Krista Jussenhoven kindly made up for my deficiency in German, Rose Cobbe corrected my French, and Sonja Nerdrum supplied me with the lines in Italian. My thanks to all of them, and to the Royal National Institute for the Deaf for access to its library.

Shipwreck was first performed in the Olivier Auditorium of the National Theatre, London, as the second part of The Coast of Utopia trilogy, on 8 July 2002. The cast was as follows:

NICHOLAS OGAREV Simon Day

NATALIE HERZEN Eve Best

IVAN TURGENEV Guy Henry

SASHA HERZEN Lewis Crutch/Freddie Hale/Thomas Moll/Greg Sheffield

NURSE Janet Spencer-Turner

ALEXANDER HERZEN Stephen Dillane

TIMOTHY GRANOVSKY Iain Mitchell

NICHOLAS KETSCHER Paul Ritter

KONSTANTIN AKSAKOV Sam Troughton

POLICEMAN Richard Hollis

VISSARION BELINSKY Will Keen

MADAME HAAG Janine Duvitski

KOLYA HERZEN Padraig Goodall/Matthew Thomas-Davies/David Perkins

GEORGE HERWEGH Raymond Coulthard

EMMA HERWEGH Charlotte Emmerson

NICHOLAS SAZONOV Jonathan Slinger

JEAN-MARIE Thomas Arnold

MICHAEL BAKUNIN Douglas Henshall

KARL MARX Paul Ritter

SHOP BOY Dominic Barklem/Alexander Green/William Green/Ashley Jones

NATALIE (NATASHA) TUCHKOV Lucy Whybrow

BENOIT Martin Chamberlain

BLUE BLOUSE John Nolan

MARIA OGAREV Felicity Dean

FRANZ OTTO Paul Ritter

ROCCA Jack James

TATA HERZEN Clemmie Hooton/Alice Knight/Harriet Lunnon/Casi Toy

MARIA FOMM Anna Maxwell Martin

LEONTY IBAYEV John Carlisle

Other parts played by Rachel Ferjani, Jasmine Hyde, Sarah Manton, Jennifer Scott Malden, Nick Sampson, Kemal Sylvester, David Verrey

Director Trevor Nunn

Set, Costume and Video Designer William Dudley