Voyage
THE COAST OF UTOPIA PART I
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.
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
Dogg's Hamlet and Cahoot's 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*
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 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
SCREENPLAYS
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Shakespeare in Love (with Marc Norman)
FICTION
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, 1814-1876—Drama. 2. Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870—Drama. 3. Russians—Germany—Drama. 4. Moscow (Russia)—Drama. 5. Revolutionaries—Drama. 6. Anarchists—Drama. 7. Germany—Drama. I. Title.
PR6069.T6V695 2003
822′.914—dc21
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Grove Press
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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
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.
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