It's a play about poetry and mathematics. It's a play about the Enlightenment versus Romanticism. It's a play about time and thermodynamics. It's a play about love and sex and death. It's a play about the past, present and future bleeding into each other, blending together until time is irrelevant. It's a very funny tragedy, or a very tragic comedy. It's a play about...

 

How do we describe and define Tom Stoppard's Arcadia? It seems like an impossible task, to untangle the web of ideas, emotions, actions and words Stoppard throws at us over the course of the play's seven scenes. Impossible, but rewarding, for as the inquisitive minds in the play itself know, there is much to be gained through curiosity and a thirst for knowledge. 

 

So follow the links above, and throughout this site, for an in-depth look at what Arcadia is about, and how it tells its story. 

 

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

                                                                                                -  Hannah Jarvis, Arcadia, Act 2, Scene 7