Arcadia

From Tom Stoppard, the playwright who gave us Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, comes Arcadia, widely regarded a one of the most brilliant plays of the 20th century. It imaginatively mixes comedy, drama and mystery as only Stoppard can in an amazing story that spans two centuries in an English country estate.

It is 1809, and the estate is in an uproar. A scandal of love and bad poetry has erupted in the household, and soon scholarly pursuits are put aside in favor of things like duels to the death. Almost two centuries later, the family’s descendants share the house with two competing scholars, trying to piece together the age-old scandal.