Arcadia - MST - Times Blvd

Arcadia
By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Rebecca Greene Udden
May 8 – June 6, 2010
MST - Times Blvd.

“It’s the best possible time to be alive, when everything you thought you knew is wrong.” In Tom Stoppard’s timetraveling
masterpiece, Arcadia, the time is 1809, as the Coverly gardens are being transformed to the Gothic
picturesque and the young genius Thomasina is forming a startling scientific theory while the adults around her are
preoccupied with illicit passions and professional rivalries. The time is also two hundred years later, as academic
adversaries Hannah and Bernard piece together puzzling clues from 1809 in their search for an increasingly elusive
truth about Lord Byron and his connection to the Coverleys. Both worlds intersect and even collide as the quests
for knowledge and passion run their courses, and everyone is forced to confront the reality of the attraction Newton
left out.

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