Dec 24, 2009

Arcadia | Lady Croom

Lady Croom is the archly witty resident aristocrat of Sidley Park in the 1809 scenes. Highborn and highbred, she still manages to misquote the painter Nicolas Poussin, insult all her guests, and stoop as low as any other character in the play to satisfy her desires—mostly with any man willing to dally in her dressing room. Lady Croom's principal objective in the play is to prevent Richard Noakes from ruining the countryside around her home with Lord Croom's vision of a Romantic wilderness. She is happy with the current arrangement, which includes trees neatly grouped on the hillside...