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P R O D U C T I O N S > A R C A D I A
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"It is a defect of God's humour that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."
Sidley Park , Derbyshire, 1809: Thirteen year old Thomasina Coverly sits solving algebra amidst chaos.
Her tutor is being courted by her mother, a poet's wife is sleeping with everyone but her husband, and a
landscape gardener is mutilating the ha-ha.
Sidley Park , Derbyshire, 2008: Amongst the usual chaos of sex, death, mathematics and horticulture,
rival academics battle to solve the chaos of two hundred years earlier.
Tom Stoppard's witty and intelligent play was a smash hit when it premiered in 1993,
prompting the Telegraph to state that "I have never left a play more convinced that I'd just witnessed a
masterpiece".
With his characteristic eye for the absurdness of life and ear for sparkling dialogue,
Tom Stoppard explores the weight of history on the present day, and the universal ideas of love and sex that ultimately unite the centuries. In merging science with human ideals, " Arcadia" is a play full of yearning, joy and the possibilities of the present.
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W H E R E & W H E N & H O W M U C H
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at the Welsh Church Hall
£6 adults
£3 concessions
advance booking only
Online booking subject to a transaction fee
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Thu 10 April 2008, 8pm
Fri 11 April 2008, 8pm
Sat 12 April 2008, 3 and 8pm
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Thomasina Coverly
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Maeve McClenaghan
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Septimus Hodge
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James Daybell
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Jellaby
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Bob Bird
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Ezra Chater
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Vaughan Thomas
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Richard Noakes
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Steve Simler
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Lady Croom
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Hilary Benson
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Captain Brice
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Matthew House
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Hannah Jarvis
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Angela Peachey
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Chloe Coverly
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Cara Dattani
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Bernard Nightingale
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Gary Adams
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Valentine Coverly
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Dean Brown
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Gus/Augustus
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James Martinelli
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P R O D U C T I O N T E A M
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Director
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Dan Usztan
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Assistant Director
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Adam Walker
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Producer
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Cathy Love
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Lighting/Sound
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Peter Raggett
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Costume Supervisor
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Louise Denny
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The production is now cast. Any further opportunities to participate will appear here.
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