Arcadia (Part One)

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Length: 01:57:58

A crash course in mathematics, landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory, courtesy of Tom Stoppard. Read the full description.

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Promos

Playing: Arcadia (Part One)
From: L.A. Theatre Works

Arcadia_detail_small Part one of a two-part broadcast. Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe’s influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through the relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in the years 1809-1812 and 1989, the play examines the lives of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier. The show includes an interview with Stoppard biographer Ira Nadel.

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Piece Description

Part one of a two-part broadcast. Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe’s influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through the relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in the years 1809-1812 and 1989, the play examines the lives of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier. The show includes an interview with Stoppard biographer Ira Nadel.

Timing and Cues

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