Arcadia

Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece is one of the greatest plays of the last 20 years – a tale of two centuries, shifting as seamlessly between eras as it does between farcical comedy and heartbreaking romance. It is 1809 and young Thomasina is working on geometry and poetry, while her tutor Septimus is working on her mother. It is also the present day, and Hannah and Bernard are scholars and sleuths trying to rediscover the events we see unfold in Thomasina’s world. This comedy of misunderstandings and misinterpretations is set up against a passionate quest to unravel the mysteries of history, art, science, and love.