Arcadia
Arcadia Author: Tom Stoppard
First Performance: 1993, London
Published: 1993
Genre: Drama in 2 acts
Setting: Room in large country house in Derbyshire, 1809 and 1993
Cast: 8m, 4f
Lady Thomasina Coverly, a precocious 13-year-old, is being taught algebra by her tutor Septimus Hodge. Ezra Chater, an inferior poet, disturbs the lesson to challenge Septimus to a duel for seducing his wife, but is dissuaded by Septimus's flattery. Richard Noakes, a landscape gardener, is planning to turn the Capability Brown gardens at Sidley Park into a wild Gothic ‘landskip’, much to the dismay of Lady Croom and Captain Edward Brice. In the present day, the same room is now being used by the famous author Hannah Jarvis, who has come to research the early 19th-century custom of installing a hermit in the Gothic landscape. She...
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