Shipwreck. Tom Stoppard

      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

       Shipwreck

       ACT ONE

      SUMMER 1846

       The garden of Sokolovo, a gentleman’s estate fifteen miles outside Moscow.

      NICHOLAS OGAREV, aged thirty-four, has been reading to NATALIE HERZEN, aged twenty-nine, from a so-called thick journal, the Contemporary. IVAN TURGENEV, aged twenty-eight, is supine, out of earshot, with his hat over his face.

      NATALIE Why have you stopped?

      OGAREV I can’t read any more. He’s gone mad. (He closes the book and lets it fall.)

      NATALIE Well, it was boring anyway.

      SASHA HERZEN, aged seven, runs across the garden followed by a NURSE pushing a baby carriage. Sasha has a fishing cane and a jar for tiddlers.

      NATALIE (cont.) Sasha, not too close to the river, darling!—(to the Nurse) Don’t let him play on the bank!

       The Nurse follows Sasha out.

      OGAREV But … it was a fishing rod, wasn’t it?

      NATALIE (calling) And where’s Kolya?—(looking aside) Oh, all right, I’ll keep an eye. (resuming) I don’t mind being bored, especially in the country, where it’s part of the attraction, but a boring book I take personally. (looking aside, amused) Far better to spend the time eating marigolds. (glancing at Turgenev) Has he gone to sleep?

      OGAREV He didn’t say anything about it to me.

      NATALIE Alexander and Granovsky will be back from picking mushrooms soon … Well, what should we talk about?

      OGAREV Yes … by all means.

      NATALIE Why does it feel as though one has been here before?

      OGAREV Because you were here last year.

      NATALIE But don’t you ever have the feeling that while real time goes galloping down the road in all directions, there are certain moments … situations … which keep having their turn again? … Like posting stations we change horses at …

      OGAREV Have we started yet? Or is this before we start talking about something?

      NATALIE Oh, don’t be sideways. Anyway, something’s wrong this year … even though it’s all the same people who were so happy together when we took the house last summer. Do you know what’s different?

      OGAREV I wasn’t here last summer.

      NATALIE No, it’s not that. Ketscher’s gone into a sulk … grown men squabbling over how to make coffee …

      OGAREV But Alexander was right. The coffee is not good, and perhaps Ketscher’s method will improve it.

      NATALIE Oh, I’m sure it’s not like Parisian coffee! … Perhaps you’re wishing you’d stayed in Paris.

      OGAREV