Arcadia to complete run as scheduled
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
DAVID Leveaux’s critically acclaimed production of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 modern classic, Arcadia, which has already recouped its production costs, will complete its run at the Duke of York’s Theatre as scheduled – on September 12, 2009.
Previously Posted: Final casting has been announced for the London revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 modern classic Arcadia, which opens at the Duke of York’s Theatre on June 4, 2009 (previews from May 27). The production, directed by David Leveaux, is currently booking until September 12, 2009.
Joining the previously announced Samantha Bond (Hannah Jarvis), Nancy Carroll (Lady Croom), Jessie Cave (Thomasina Coverly), Neil Pearson (Bernard Nightingale), Dan Stevens (Septimus Hodge) and Ed Stoppard (Valentine Coverly) are Trevor Cooper (Richard Noakes), Sam Cox (Jellaby), Lucy Griffiths (Chloë Coverly), Tom Hodgkins (Captain Brice), Hugh Mitchell (Augustus/Gus Coverly) and George Potts (Ezra Chater).
In April 1809, at a stately home in Derbyshire, gifted pupil Thomasina proposes a startling theory, beyond her comprehension. All around her, the adults, including her tutor Septimus, 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.
Directed by Trevor Nunn, Arcadia received its world premiere in 1993 at the National Theatre, before transferring to the West End and Broadway. Stoppard went on to win both the Laurence Olivier Award and the New York Drama Critics’ Best New Play Award.
Stoppard’s plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (the first to be staged), The Coast of Utopia, The Invention of Love, Jumpers, Hapgood, The Real Inspector Hound, Night and Day, Travesties, After Magritte and the multi award-winning Rock ’n’ Roll. His adaptations include Schnitzler’s Dalliance and Undiscovered Country.
He has also written new versions of Chekhov’s The Seagull and Pirandello’s Henry IV. And his film scripts include The Human Factor, Empire of the Sun, Shakespeare in Love (co-written with Marc Norman) and Enigma.
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