Authors: Tom Stoppard
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
THE COAST OF UTOPIA PART II
TOM STOPPARD
Copyright © 2002 by Tom Stoppard
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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. â (The Coast of Utopia; pt. 2)
      eBook ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9530-2
     1. Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870âDrama.   2. Bakunin, Mikhail
   Aleksandrovich, 1814â1876âDrama.   3. Belinsky, Vissarion Grigoryevich,
   1811â1848âDrama.   4. RussiansâFranceâDrama.   5. RevolutionariesâDrama.
   6. Paris (France)âDrama.   7. AnarchistsâDrama.   I. Title.
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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
Lighting Designer
   David Hersey
Associate Director
   Stephen Rayne
Music
   Steven Edis
Movement Director
   David Bolger
Sound Designer
   Paul Groothuis
Company Voice Work
   Patsy Rodenburg
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