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
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First Grove Atlantic edition: 1979
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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
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