The other night I went with my daughter’s drama workshop group to see the opening performance of Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard, at an outdoor theater in Boston called the Publick Theater. It was a wonderful performance of a witty and funny play, with two parallel plots set in the same English country house two hundred years apart, involving Fermat’s Last Theorem, the thermodynamics of steam engines, a literary detective story, a possible murder involving Lord Byron, and naturally, sex. It’s one of those plays that you have to work hard to keep up with—but it’s a pleasure, because it’s so much fun. I hope to see it again during its run, to catch all the details I missed the first time around. Terrific cast.
For any of you who are in the Boston area, I strongly recommend it. Arcadia is playing now, and off and on through the summer. (See the Publick Theater web site.)
Rich
I saw Arcadia a few years ago at Vokes Theater in Wayland. Nobody can touch Stoppard.
Jeffrey A. Carver
No. But even Stoppard can’t touch Lucas, seemingly. (Assuming reports are correct that he helped write Revenge of the Sith.) A fun movie, even a good movie–but definitely in spite of the dialogue, not because of.