description: This is Tom Stoppard's award-winning play, set in Derbyshire. The orderly classicism of Lady Croom's Capability Brown grounds are being turned into picturesque romantic chaos, as fashion dictates, by landscape architect "Culpability Noakes". In a Regency room overlooking the work is Lady Croom's brilliant adolescent daughter - Thomasina Coverly, with her handsome, clever tutor Septimus Hodge. Their maths lesson is disturbed by, among others, the imperious, amorous Lady Croom and Ezra Chater, a cuckold and minor poet, determined on satisfaction. One hundred and eighty years later, in the same room, a corresponding group, comprising a mathematician, a biographer/historian, and a vulgar academic, try to unravel the events of 1809 - with spectacularly wrong results.
language: English
title: Arcadia
titlecomplete: Arcadia
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, British Literature, Drama, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, School
ratings_count: 22735
places: Derbyshire, England, 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: Samuel French Ltd