UW Drama performs Tom Stoppard's Arcadia

[Robin Atchison]

Arcadia

by Tom Stoppard

What do fractal geometry, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, iterated
algorithms, chaos theory, classical horticulture, gothic architecture,
carnal embrace, and Lord Byron's sex life have in common? They are all
ingredients in Tom Stoppard's masterpiece comedy thriller Arcadia, the final
UW Drama production of the 2009-2010 season. 

But you won't need a higher degree in nano-computing or quantum mechanics to
enjoy this play.  Arcadia is emphatically not a dramatized academic seminar,
but a tightly executed theatrical tour de force which is part satire, part
detective story, part debate about determinism and free will, part
celebration of the ungovernable curiosity about the world around us.

Considered by many one of the greatest plays of our time, Arcadia celebrates
the human thirst for knowledge, fully cognizant that such knowledge will
forever be elusive.  Yet in the pursuit of sexy ideas about the universe, it
also celebrates universal ideas about sex, the one unpredictable "attraction
which Newton left out" in his deterministic model of the world. 

 

Directed by Gerd Hauck, Arcadia, will be performed on March 11-13 and 18-20
at 8:00 pm.


Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building, University of Waterloo

Box Office: 519 888-4908

Tickets: $12 general, $10 students/seniors

For more information see www.drama.uwaterloo.ca or contact Robin Atchison
519.888.4567, ext. 35808

 

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