Shipwreck was first performed in the Olivier Auditorium of the National Theatre, London, as the second part of The Coast of Utopia trilogy, on 8 July 2002. The cast was as follows:
NICHOLAS OGAREV Simon Day
NATALIE HERZEN Eve Best
IVAN TURGENEV Guy Henry
SASHA HERZEN Lewis Crutch/Freddie Hale/Thomas Moll/Greg Sheffield
NURSE Janet Spencer-Turner
ALEXANDER HERZEN Stephen Dillane
TIMOTHY GRANOVSKY Iain Mitchell
NICHOLAS KETSCHER Paul Ritter
KONSTANTIN AKSAKOV Sam Troughton
POLICEMAN Richard Hollis
VISSARION BELINSKY Will Keen
MADAME HAAG Janine Duvitski
KOLYA HERZEN Padraig Goodall/Matthew Thomas-Davies/David Perkins
GEORGE HERWEGH Raymond Coulthard
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