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The Coast of Utopia: Salvage
by Tom Stoppard
The Coast of Utopia comprises three sequential but self-contained plays, Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage. They tell an epic story of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in the struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors.
Set in the mid-19th century in Russia and Europe, the trilogy follows a group of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I.
Among them are the idealist and anarchist Michael Bakunin who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman's son and the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russian history, who becomes the main focus of a drama of politics, love, loss and betrayal.
The action takes place between 1853 and 1865 in London and Switzerland.
Cast credits:
Korf : Thomas Arnold
Malwida von Meysenbug : Eve Best
Stanislaw Worcell : John Carlisle
Lajos Kossuth/Perotkin : Martin Chamberlain
Nicholas Chernyshevsky : Raymond Coulthard
Nicholas Ogarev : Simon Day
Joanna Kinkel : Felicity Dean
Alexander Herzen : Stephen Dillane
Mrs Blainey, the Herzen's nanny : Janine Duvitski
Mary Sutherland : Charlotte Emmerson
Teresina : Rachel Ferjani
Ivan Turgenev : Guy Henry
Michael Bakunin : Douglas Henshall
Mazzini/ Czerniecki : Richard Hollis
Olga Herzen as an adult : Jasmine Hyde
Alponse de Ville : Jack James
Louis Blanc : Will Keen
Emily Jones : Jennifer Scott Malden
A Polish emigré : Sarah Manton
Tata Herzen, older and as an adult : Anna Maxwell Martin
Ernest Jones : Iain Mitchell
Arnold Ruge/ Zenkowicz : John Nolan
Karl Marx : Paul Ritter
Gottfried Kinkel/ Pavel Vetoshnikov : Nick Sampson
Sleptsov : Jonathan Slinger
Parlourmaid : Janet Spencer-Turner
Tchorzewski : Kemal Sylvester
Captain Peks/ Sasha Herzen as an adult/ Doctor : Sam Troughton
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin : David Verrey
Natalie Ogarev : Lucy Whybrow
Production credits:
Director: Trevor Nunn
Set, Costume & Video Designer: William Dudley
Lighting Director: David Hersey
Associate Director: Stephen Rayne
Music: Steven Edis
Choreography: David Bolger
Sound Designer: Paul Groothuis
The Coast of Utopia: Salvage finished on: 23 November 2002
