Arcadia (Acting Edition)
by Tom Stoppard

Arcadia (Acting Edition) Book Cover
Arcadia (Acting Edition) Cover

Synopsis

This is Tom Stoppard's award-winning play, set in Derbyshire.

The orderly classicism of Lady Croom's Capability Brown grounds are being turned into picturesque romantic chaos, as fashion dictates, by landscape architect Culpability Noakes.

In a Regency room overlooking the work is Lady Croom's brilliant adolescent daughter - Thomasina Coverly, with her handsome, clever tutor Septimus Hodge.

Their maths lesson is disturbed by, among others, the imperious, amorous Lady Croom and Ezra Chater, a cuckold and minor poet, determined on satisfaction.

One hundred and eighty years later, in the same room, a corresponding group, comprising a mathematician, a biographer/historian, and a vulgar academic, try to unravel the events of 1809 - with spectacularly wrong results.

Performance

Cast

A medium cast size of 12 total roles, 4 female and 8 male roles.

Publication

Publisher
Samuel French
Year Published
1994
ISBN 10
0573017182
ISBN 13
9780573017186
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
146 pages
Language
English
Print
Arcadia (Acting Edition) is a British play written by and published by Samuel French in 1994. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780573017186 and an ISBN-10 of 0573017182.

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