Arcadia

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. The play is set in an English stately home at two different times - 1809 and 2993. Two characters are researching the history of the house, in particular the young girl who it seems discovered chaos theory 200 years before the "geniuses" at M.I.T. and Harvard. We are taken backwards and forward through time, discovering how events of the past are misinterpreted by the histprians of the present. First produced in South Africa by the Civic Theatre, in Johannesburg and CAPAB in Cape Town and at the National Arts Festival, the latter directed by Roy Sargeant in 1994. Decor by Keith Anderson, costumes Fanie Steenkamp, lighting Bernard Hegarty, stage director Patrick Curtis, stage manager Glen Mellville, assisted by Louwrens Fourie and Paul Smith. The cast included Nicole Franco, Stephen Jennings, Neels Coetzee, Anthony Bishop, Jay Heale, Diane Wilson, Patrick Lyster, Shirley Johnston, Jana van Niekerk, Ralph Lawson, Thomas Hall, Brian Webber.

Sources

National Arts Festival programme, 1994

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