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Shipwreck

THE COAST OF UTOPIA PART II

Tom Stoppard's 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 You're Glad, I'll Be Frank, Albert's 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
Dogg's Hamlet and Cahoot's 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
*

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 You're Glad, I'll Be Frank
Albert's 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

Shipwreck

THE COAST OF UTOPIA PART II

TOM STOPPARD

Copyright © 2002 by Tom Stoppard

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Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Part II
is subject to a royalty. It is fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and all British Commonwealth countries, and all countries covered by the International Copyright Union, the Pan-American Copyright Convention, and the Universal Copyright Convention. All rights, including professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, public reading, radio broadcasting, television, video or sound taping, all other forms of mechanical or electronic reproduction, such as information storage and retrieval systems and photocopying, and rights of translation into foreign languages, are strictly reserved.

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, 1812-1870—Drama.   2. Bakunin, Mikhail
   Aleksandrovich, 1814–1876—Drama.   3. Belinsky, Vissarion Grigoryevich,
   1811–1848—Drama.   4. Russians—France—Drama.   5. Revolutionaries—Drama.
   6. Paris (France)—Drama.   7. Anarchists—Drama.   I. Title.
      PR6069.T6S54 2003
      822′.914—dc21                                                                                  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

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.

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

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 HERZEN,
a radical writer

NATALIE HERZEN,
Alexander's wife

TATA HERZEN,
the Herzens' daughter

SASHA HERZEN,
the Herzens' son

KOLYA HERZEN,
the Herzens' younger son

NICHOLAS OGAREV,
a poet and radical

IVAN TURGENEV,
a poet and writer

TIMOTHY GRANOVSKY,
a historian

NICHOLAS KETSCHER,
a doctor

KONSTANTIN AKSAKOV,
a Slavophile

NURSE,
a household serf

POLICEMAN

VISSARION BELINSKY,
a literary critic

GEORGE HERWEGH,
a radical poet

EMMA HERWEGH,
his Wife

MADAME HAAG,
Herzen's mother

NICHOLAS SAZONOV,
a Russian émigré

MICHAEL BAKUNIN,
a Russian émigré activist

JEAN-MARIE,
a French servant

KARL MARX,
author of
The Communist Manifesto

SHOP BOY

NATALIE (NATASHA) TUCHKOV,
Natalie's friend

BENOIT,
a French servant

BLUE BLOUSE,
a Paris worker

MARIA OGAREV,
Ogarev's estranged wife

FRANZ OTTO,
Bakunin's defence lawyer

ROCCA,
an Italian servant

MARIA FOMM,
a German nanny

LEONTY IBAYEV,
Russian Consul in Nice

The action takes place between 1846 and 1852
at Sokolovo, a gentleman's estate fifteen miles
outside Moscow; Salzbrunn, Germany;
Paris; Dresden; and Nice

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