Tom Stoppard - Voyage: The Coast of Utopia, Part I

Voyage

THE COAST OF UTOPIA PART I

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.

P LAYS

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*

Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Part II*

Salvage: The Coast of Utopia Part III*

T ELEVISION S CRIPTS

A Separate Peace

Teeth

Another Moon Called Earth

Neutral Ground

Professional Foul

Squaring the Circle

R ADIO P LAYS

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

S CREENPLAYS

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Shakespeare in Love (with Marc Norman)

F ICTION

Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon

*Available from Grove Press

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.

Voyage / Tom Stoppard.

p. cm. (The Coast of Utopia ; pt. 1)

ISBN 9780802195296

1. Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1814-1876Drama. 2. Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870Drama. 3. RussiansGermanyDrama. 4. Moscow (Russia)Drama. 5. RevolutionariesDrama. 6. AnarchistsDrama. 7. GermanyDrama. I. Title.

PR6069.T6V695 2003

822.914dc21

2003042181

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

A CKNOWLEDGMENTS

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.

Voyage was first performed in the Olivier Auditorium of the National Theatre, London, as the first part of The Coast of Utopia trilogy, on June 27, 2002. The cast was as follows:

ALEXANDER BAKUNIN John Carlisle

VARVARA Felicity Dean

LIUBOV Eve Best

VARENKA Charlotte Emmerson

TATIANA Lucy Whybrow

ALEXANDRA Anna Maxwell Martin

MISS CHAMBERLAIN Jennifer Scott Maiden

BARON RENNE Jack James

SEMYON John Nolan

MICHAEL BAKUNIN Douglas Henshall

NICHOLAS STANKEVICH Raymond Coulthard

MASHA Janet Spencer-Turner

VISSARION BELINSKY Will Keen

IVAN TURGENEV Guy Henry

ALEXANDER HERZEN Stephen Dillane

MRS BEYER Janine Duvitski

NICHOLAS SAZONOV Jonathan Slinger

NICHOLAS OGAREV Simon Day

NICHOLAS KETSCHER Paul Ritter

NICHOLAS POLEVOY Nick Sampson

NATALIE BEYER Rachel Ferjani

PETER CHAADAEV Iain Mitchell

STEPAN SHEVYREV Sam Troughton

DYAKOV David Verrey

KATYA Jasmine Hyde

PUSHKIN Jack James

A GINGER CAT Richard Hollis

Other parts played by Thomas Arnold, Martin Chamberlain, Sarah Manton, Kemal Sylvester

Director Trevor Nunn

Set, Costume and Video Designer William Dudley

Lighting Designer David Hersey

Associate Director Stephen Rayne

Music Steven Edis

Movement Director David Bolger

Sound Designer Paul Groothuis

Company Voice Work Patsy Rodenburg

CHARACTERS

ALEXANDER BAKUNIN

VARVARA, his wife

MISS CHAMBERLAIN, an English governess

BARON RENNE, a cavalry officer

SEMYON, senior household servant

MASHA, the maid

NICHOLAS STANKEVICH, a young philosopher

MICHAEL BAKUNIN, the Bakunins son

VISSARION BELINSKY, a literary critic

IVAN TURGENEV, a would-be writer