Arcadia: A Play in Two ActsConcord Theatricals, 1993 - 134 pages Arcadia moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed into picturesque Gothic gardens, complete with a hermitage, thirteen year-old Lady Thomasina and her tutor delve into intellectual and romantic issues. Present day scenes depict the Coverly descendants and two competing scholars who are researching a possible scandal at the estate in 1809 involving Lord Byron. This brilliant play moves smoothly between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive influence of sex on our life orbits- the attraction Newton left out. |
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Arcadia AUGUSTUS BERNARD boat-house briefcase Byron Society Journal Captain Brice carnal embrace Castle of Otranto CHLOE closing the door Coat Couch of Eros course dahlia dance dear Derbyshire diagram drawing Dress duel ends up Onstage English Bards enters equation essay everything Ezra Chater Fermat's last theorem Game Book garden door gazebo geometry give goes going grouse HANNAH HANNAH JARVIS hermit hermitage JELLABY kiss LADY CROOM ladyship leaf leaves lesson book lesson notebook letter looks Lord Byron Maid of Turkey mama math primer mathematics mean music room Nightingale NOAKES numbers paper Pause Peacock piano picks pistols Plautus play poet portfolio reading stand Scene Septimus's Shoes Sidley Park sketch book sorry takes tell Thank theodolite There's thing THOMASINA COVERLY Thomasina's lesson TOM STOPPARD Tony Award tortoise tray Trevor Nunn turns tutor VALENTINE waltz wife