Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia returns to the West End in a new production directed by Carrie Cracknell, staged in the round at the newly renovated Duke of York’s Theatre for a strictly limited 12-week season.
First staged in 1993, Arcadia is one of Tom Stoppard’s best-known plays. It moves between two centuries in the same room of an English country house. In 1809, Thomasina Coverly, a teenage mathematical prodigy, and her tutor Septimus Hodge explore mathematics, nature and the forces that govern both the universe and the human heart. In the present day, the writers Hannah Jarvis and Bernard Nightingale sift through the house’s papers in pursuit of a literary mystery linked to Lord Byron. As the two timelines unfold side by side, the past begins to blur and shimmer.
By turns funny and deeply moving, Arcadia is a meditation on what it means to be alive, to love, to learn and to lose. This staging is led by Nikki Amuka-Bird, Oliver Chris, Isis Hainsworth and Seamus Dillane. Book your tickets now.
