num_pages: 144
description: Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteries--romantic, scientific, literary--that engage the minds and hearts of characters whose passions and lives intersect across scientific planes and centuries, it is "Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and... emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow... Exhilarating" (Vincent Canby, The New York Times).
language: English
title: Arcadia
titlecomplete: Arcadia
genres: Historical, Literature, British Literature, Classics, School, Drama, Plays, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Theatre
ratings_count: 22736
places: England, Derbyshire, England
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Laurence Olivier Award
category: Best New Play, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Evening Standard Award
category: Best Play of the Year, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best  Play
publisher: Faber & Faber