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Shipwreck (from The Coast of Utopia)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  7w, 13m

Tom Stoppard

Shipwreck (from The Coast of Utopia)
by Tom Stoppard

In the'second part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy the action moves from Moscow to Germany, Paris and Nice between the 1840s and 1850s where Alexander Herzen, the civilized revolutionary for whom the word intelligen'sia was formed, becomes the main charact…

Shipwreck (from The Coast of Utopia)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    7w, 13m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Period, Docudrama/Historic
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
In the'second part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy the action moves from Moscow to Germany, Paris and Nice between the 1840s and 1850s where Alexander Herzen, the civilized revolutionary for whom the word intelligen'sia was formed, becomes the main character. After years of internal exile, Herzen escapes to Paris where other Russian í©migrí©s have settled but he becomes disillusioned in the wake of the Paris revolution of 1848.
  • Time Period 19th Century
  • Setting Varioius interior and exterior settings
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

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Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard’s most recent play, The Hard Problem, opened at the National Theatre in 2015. He wrote his first play, Enter a Free Man, whilst working as a journalist in Bristol. His plays include Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, ...

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