The Third Man - Draft Outline
Act I
*Cathedral of the Assumption - VID?
Opening - Coronation (Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov) - 26th May 1896
*The Winter Palace
Tsar - Appointed By God
Tsar / Tsarina - Reflections - Khodynka (Regret)
Visit to Kaiser / Victoria (Autumn 1896) - Godparents to Edward VIII
Tsarina - Thanks Be To God (children)
Olga (1895) - Tatiana (1897) - Maria (1899) - Anastasia (1901) - Tsarevich [heir] (1904)
Family complete
Tsarevich Illness
The English Disease - The Royal Disease (inherited from Victoria) - The Secret - Help Us O God
Arrival of Rasputin (1906)
Saviour - Thanks Be To God
Edward VII to Russia (1908) *Imperial Family visit the UK (1909)
*Setting?
Gossip / Controversy - Society Ladies - "Holy of Holies"
*Pub Scene (linked from previous)
"Sin to be Saved"
*Moika Palace
Yusupov - Hatred (to Rayner?)
*Winter Palace
Tsarevich Accident (1912)
"God has seen your tears and heard your prayers"
*1913 - Tsar & George V, Kaiser's daughter's wedding in Berlin
Rasputin Must Go
Church - Heretic
Politicians - Tool
Ensemble - Rumour
Rasputin Must Stay
Romanovs - The Secret - Untouchable
Interruption - Franz Ferdinand - Serbia - Outbreak of the First World War
*Cathedral of the Assumption - VID?
Opening - Coronation (Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov) - 26th May 1896
*The Winter Palace
Tsar - Appointed By God
Tsar / Tsarina - Reflections - Khodynka (Regret)
Visit to Kaiser / Victoria (Autumn 1896) - Godparents to Edward VIII
Tsarina - Thanks Be To God (children)
Olga (1895) - Tatiana (1897) - Maria (1899) - Anastasia (1901) - Tsarevich [heir] (1904)
Family complete
Tsarevich Illness
The English Disease - The Royal Disease (inherited from Victoria) - The Secret - Help Us O God
Arrival of Rasputin (1906)
Saviour - Thanks Be To God
Edward VII to Russia (1908) *Imperial Family visit the UK (1909)
*Setting?
Gossip / Controversy - Society Ladies - "Holy of Holies"
*Pub Scene (linked from previous)
"Sin to be Saved"
*Moika Palace
Yusupov - Hatred (to Rayner?)
*Winter Palace
Tsarevich Accident (1912)
"God has seen your tears and heard your prayers"
*1913 - Tsar & George V, Kaiser's daughter's wedding in Berlin
Rasputin Must Go
Church - Heretic
Politicians - Tool
Ensemble - Rumour
Rasputin Must Stay
Romanovs - The Secret - Untouchable
Interruption - Franz Ferdinand - Serbia - Outbreak of the First World War
Act II
*Street Scene
Company - War Is Upon Us
*Winter Palace / Vignettes
Tsar - Kaiser - King (Willy / Nicky)
Tsar / Tsarina - Reflection of Opening
Appointed by God (reprise) - Loyalty to Family & Russia
Tsar to Front Line (1915)
Tsarina as Regent - Rasputin as Counsel
Thank God (reprise) - for Father Grigori - The Secret
*The Duma
Conspirators - Response to Rasputin - Misinformation
Purishkevich: "an obscure moujik shall govern Russia no longer!" "While Rasputin is alive, we cannot win"
Speech to the Duma:
"The Tsar's ministers who have been turned into marionettes, marionettes whose threads have been taken firmly in hand by Rasputin and the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna—the evil genius of Russia and the Tsarina... who has remained a German on the Russian throne and alien to the country and its people"
Company: Our German Queen
*Moika Palace
Yusupov / Rayner - The Plan
Depict the fiction - Reveal the Truth
*Winter Palace / The Front
Tsar to Tsarina to Rasputin
An Invaluable Service - The Premonition
*Moika Palace
The Assassination
The Fiction of Yusupov
Reprise: The Flaws within the Fiction - Rayner
"Ghosts" on screen?
*Street Scene
The Aftermath
Winter - Hunger - Strikes - Revolution - Abdication
Tsar's Soliloquy - Twilight of Imperial Russia, The End of Days
“a good, simple, religious Russian man. In minutes of doubt and spiritual turmoil I love to converse with him and after such conversations my soul is always light and calm.”
Three centuries of Romanov Rule at an end - Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Alexander I
Exile to UK - Refused. France - Refused
"You know not what you do"
Family - form portrait - removal of trappings
Imprisonment - Red light - Vanquished
"You know not what you do"
Vacuum
Epilogue: Reflection & the Resurrection of Russia
Tsar - link to Coronation Reprise?
Early Slavs/Rus'(pre-9th century) - Rus' Khaganate (c.830–899) - Kievan Rus'(882–1240) - Grand Duchy of Vladimir (1157–1331) - Grand Duchy of Moscow (1283–1547) - Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721) - Russian Empire (1721–1917) - Russian Provisional Government (1917) - Russian Republic (1917) - Russian State (1918–1920) - Russian SFSR (1917–1922) - Soviet Union (1922–1991) - Russian Federation (1991 - present day)
Funeral - 17th July 1998 (Prince Michael of Kent in attendance)
Tsar joined by family
Yeltsin: "Today is a historic day for Russia. For many years, we kept quiet about this monstrous crime, but the truth has to be spoken" - Connect to Rayner