PLAYS The Hard Problem Enter a Free Man The Real Inspector Hound After Magritte Jumpers Travesties Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Dogg’s Hamlet and Cahoot’s Macbeth Undiscovered Country (adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Das weite Land) On the Razzle (adapted from Johann Nestroy’s Einen Jux will er sich machen) Arcadia The Real Thing Rough Crossing (adapted from Ferenc Molnár’s Play at the Castle) Dalliance (adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Liebelei) Hapgood Indian Ink Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead The Invention of Love Voyage: The Coast of Utopia Part I Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Part II Salvage: The Coast of Utopia Part III Rock ‘n’ Roll The Coast of Utopia: A Trilogy TELEVISION SCRIPTS A Separate Peace Teeth Another Moon Called Earth Neutral Ground Professional Foul Squaring the Circle Parade’s End FICTION Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon TOM STOPPARD NIGHT AND DAY Copyright © 1979 by Tom Stoppard All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Scanning, uploading, and electronic distribution of this book or the facilitation of such without the permission of the publisher is prohibited. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. Any member of educational institutions wishing to photocopy part or all of the work for classroom use, or anthology, should send inquiries to Grove Atlantic, 154 West 14th Street, NewYork, NY 10011 or [email protected]. CAUTION: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that Night and Day 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 Samuel French, Inc., 235 Park Avenue South, NewYork, NY 10003, and for professional rights, to United Agents LLP, 12–26 Lexington Street, London, W1F 0LE.
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First Grove Atlantic edition: 1979 This Grove Atlantic edition: December 2018 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available for this title. ISBN 978-0-8021-2897-3 eISBN 978-0-8021-4678-6 Grove Press an imprint of Grove Atlantic 154 West 14th Street New York, NY 10011 Distributed by Publishers Group West 18 19 20 21 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Paul Johnson Table of Contents Also by Tom Stoppard Production Credits Characters A Note on ‘Ruth’
The Set
Act One
Act Two
Night and Day was first performed at the Phoenix Theatre, London, on 8 November 1978. The cast was as follows:
George Guthrie
William Marlowe
Francis
George Harris
Ruth Carson
Diana Rigg
Alastair Carson
Jon Bentley
Dick Wagner
John Thaw
Jacob Milne
Peter Machin
Geoffrey Carson
David Langton
President Mageeba
Olu Jacobs
Directed by
Peter Wood
Decor by
Carl Toms
Lighting by
Robert Bryan
