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Arcadia
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Event Type(s):
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Arts / Theatre / Music
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Organization:
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Play On!- The Theatre at Ix
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Description:
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Play On! presents Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, opening February 4, 2010
The Theatre at Ix, 983 2nd Street S.E., Charlottesville, VA 22902
Media Contact: Ty Cooper (434) 872-0184
Runs February 4 thru 21
Show Times: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.; Sundays at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets, Info, and Directions: www.playontheatre.org
Box Office: (434) 872-0184
Ticket Prices: $11.00 - $15.00; Thursdays are Pay-what-you-will. Group rates are available.
Tag Line: From carnal embrace to chaos theory, Arcadia is a dazzling dance of ideas, an exuberant meditation on love, mortality, and how we make sense of it all.
Play On! presents Tom Stoppard's modern masterpiece, Arcadia, opening in the Theatre at Ix on February 4, 2010 and running Thursdays through Sundays through February 21.
Part comedy, part mystery, Arcadia is a dazzling dance of ideas, an exuberant meditation on love, mortality, and how we make sense of it all.
After its London premiere, Arcadia won the Olivier Award for Best Play of 1993, as well as the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Play of 1995. The New York Times praised Arcadia as “Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy: a play of wit, intellect, brio, and emotion.” A 2009 London revival inspired The Independent, a leading British newspaper, to proclaim Arcadia “perhaps the greatest play of its time.”
Arcadia embraces themes and ideas from many disciplines—literature, history, physics, music, the visual arts, landscape architecture, theoretical mathematics, and more. But, as director John Holdren notes, “You don't have to bring a stack of encyclopedias with you. The brilliant script helps you fill in the puzzle pieces along with the characters in the play.”
Tom Stoppard's other plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the epic Coast of Utopia, and Rock 'n' Roll. He was also the lead writer for the Oscar-winning screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.
The action of Arcadia opens in 1809 at Sidley Park, an English country house, as 13-year-old Thomasina Coverly explores insights that startle her tutor, Septimus Hodge, whose mind is muddled by longings for Thomasina's mother, Lady Croom, herself distracted by both the transformation of the estate's grounds and the attractions of a visitor, the rock-star poet of his day, Lord Byron. Also at Sidley Park, two academics, Hannah Jarvis and Bernard Nightingale, seek to solve the mystery of what happened at the estate in the early 1800s, while the young heirs of the Coverly family, Valentine and Chloë, deal with their own intellectual and erotic preoccupations.
Play On's production of Arcadia boasts an outstanding cast, including (in alphabetical order):
Matt Christensen (Capt. Brice) recently performed in Play On's Incorruptible.
Bruce Glassco (Richard Noakes) has performed in many plays and now teaches British Literature and Composition at PVCC.
Amy Lynn Hart (Lady Croom) has starred in many productions, from the title role in Cinderella to Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde.
Nick Heiderstadt (Ezra Chater) has appeared in many local performances, including Much Ado About Nothing (Hamner Theatre), Oliver, As You Like It, and Tom Sawyer (Four County), Sweeney Todd at Live Arts, and The Sorcerer and The Mikado with New Lyric Theatre.
Brad Larson (Valentine Coverly) is a playwright and actor who recently relocated to Charlottesville from overseas, where he appeared in various and plays and television productions.
Tim McNamara (Jellaby) has directed over 100 productions during his 34-year career in the theater program at one of Miami's Performing Arts Magnet Schools.
Sarah Mitchell (Chloë Coverly), a senior at Monticello High School who has participated in many school and local productions, played Hope Cladwell in Urinetown and Princess Amneris in Aida.
Sam Reeder (Septimus Hodge), a third year at UVa, has appeared in The Foreigner, Fuddy Meers, Oklahoma! (UVa Drama); Damn Yankees, Thoroughly Modern Millie (First Year Players); and, The Beard of Avon (Live Arts).
Kevin Snyder (Augustus/Gus Coverly), a student at Tandem Friends School, was recently in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Footloose! The Musical.
Josephine Stewart (Thomasina Coverly) recently played Minnie in The Matchmaker and Agnes in Gypsy, both at Live Arts.
Broocks Willich (Hannah Jarvis) brings LA & NYC theatre credits including the title role in Shaw's St. Joan, the original staged readings of Million Dollar Quartet, an all-female Monty Python Review, and TV episodes of The West Wing.
Robert Wray (Bernard Nightingale), a noted playwright who performed for many years in New York, regionally, and abroad, was last seen locally at the Hamner Theater as Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, and before that in All My Sons at Live Arts.
Play On, founded in 2005, is Charlottesville's only all-volunteer, not-for-profit theatre. During its first four seasons, the troupe has presented nearly thirty plays and musicals. Following this production of Arcadia, Play On will be presenting the Central Virginia premiere of Jonathan Larson's Rent, opening on March 18th.
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Location:
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Charlottesville
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Address:
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983 Second Street S.E.
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Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
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Date:
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Friday, 2/12/2010
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Start Time:
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8:00 PM
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End Time:
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10:00 PM
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