Arcadia

TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL

Arcadia is one of Tom Stoppard's undisputed masterpieces about the human quest for knowledge. Bringing together science and literature, classicism and romanticism, determinism and the universe as unpredictable, Stoppard creates a witty, emotionally engaging and insightful play. The action moves between two periods, the early 19th century in a Derbyshire country house and the present, where one group of characters seeks to understand and plot the future, while the other tries to reconstruct the past.

Helmed by David Leveaux, one of the country's leading directors who was also responsible for the West End and Broadway productions of Stoppard's The Real Thing and Jumpers, this magnificent revival captures Stoppard's inquisitive humanism and delves into mathematics and metaphysics with passion and poetry, making the complex startlingly simple and moving. With elegant design by Hildegard Bechtler and lighting by Paul Anderson, Arcadia stars Ed Stoppard, Samantha Bond, Nancy Carroll, Jessie Cave, Neil Pearson and Dan Stevens.

The first revival of Arcadia since its premiere in 1993, Leveaux's production of Stoppard's brilliant play as challenging, comic, poignant, beautiful and fascinating as the original.