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Arcadia is a drama-based play. Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, dubbed "the greatest play of our age" by The Independent, travels through the centuries, discussing time, truth, love, literature, heat, science, the differences between Classical and Romantic temperaments – and the disruptive influence of sex on everything else we know about life. Arcadia takes place in two time periods, one in the Regency period and the other in the present, in a single room on the Coverly estate. In 1809, an Arcadian English Garden landscape is uprooted to make way for exquisite Gothic gardens, replete with hermitage, in a household in transition. Meanwhile, Lady Thomasina, a brilliant thirteen-year-old, proposes a surprising scientific idea that is only now being unraveled more than 200 years later. Two opposing scholars are currently examining the world of the estate in the Regency Era. Bernard has notions about a deadly conflict of passion that took place on grounds, including Lord Byron, and Hannah is intrigued by the identity of the hermit who occupied the hermitage stipulated by the garden makeover. The result is a drama dubbed "the perfect blend of wits and emotion, wit and heartbreak" by the New York Times, in which everyone tries to figure out the meaning of the world, and each gets blindsided by the attraction that Newton left out of his equations.
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