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Arcadia
by Sir Tom Stoppard
Royal Theatre, Northampton
Monday
21st to Saturday 16th October, 2002
Tickets: £6.00 (telephone: 01295 262875) |
It
is not often that you can see a play dealing with subjects such
as chaos mathematics, botany, tortoises and Lord Byron.
But
Arcadia is no ordinary play.
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| Dominic
Colchester |
It
is set on an English country estate in two eras - 1809 and 2002.
The action flits forward and backward in time, exploring themes
of science, art and philosophy. It is part mystery, part love story.
Arcadia
was voted Time Magazine's Best Play of 1995. It is written by one
of our greatest playwrights, Sir Tom Stoppard, whose previous work
includes Rozencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Travesties and
screenplays for Shakespeare in Love, Enigma, The Russia House and
Empire of the Sun.
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| Holly
Radford |
Northampton
Theatre's Artistic Director Rupert Goold is directing Arcadia at
the Royal Theatre where it plays for two weeks before transferring
to Sailsbury Playhouse.
The
cast of 12 includes four actors returning to the Royal: Dominic
Colchester (Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream), Alexi Kaye Campbell
(Medvedenko in the Seagull), Vincent Penfold (Benjamin Backbite
in The School for Scandal) and Robert J Page (Merriman in The Importance
of Being Earnest).
Also
in the cast are: Holly Radford, Elliot Cowan, Samantha Holland,
Diana Kent, Alice Hart, John Dougall, Tobias Menzies and Michael
Mallon.
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