Main Street Theater - Arcadia
By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Rebecca Greene Udden
Main Street Theater -
Rice Village
2540 Times Blvd.
Previews
May 8, 9 and 12, 2010
Performances
May 13 - June 6, 2010
Call 713-524-6706 for Tickets
Single Tickets go on sale October 31
For groups of 10 or more, please call Andrew Ruthven, Director of Audience Services, at 713-524-3622 x102
“It’s the best possible time to be alive, when everything you thought you knew is wrong.” In Tom Stoppard’s time-traveling 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.
First produced in 1993, Main Street Theater presented the Houston premiere in 1996 at its then newly-opened Chelsea Market theater.
Rated PG-13 – Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
Children under the age of 5 are not allowed in the theater.
