Shipwreck. 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. — (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.

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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

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      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