ARCADIA played a limited engagement from June 4 – September 12, 2009 at The Duke of York’s Theatre London.
Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia was a Laurence Olivier Award-winning hit when it premiered at the National Theatre, subsequently transferring to the West End and Broadway. Now, the playwright’s son Ed Stoppard appears in a new production of Arcadia, with Neil Pearson, Samantha Bond and Dan Stevens. Arcadia begins in April 1809 in a stately home in Derbyshire. Thomasina, a gifted pupil, proposes a startling theory, beyond her comprehension. All around her, the adults are preoccupied with secret desires, illicit passions and professional rivalries. Two hundred years later, academic adversaries Hannah and Bernard are piecing together puzzling clues, curiously recalling those events of 1809, in their quest for an increasingly elusive truth.