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Samuel French Ltd Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
This is Tom Stoppards awardwinning play set in Derbyshire. The orderly classicism of Lady Crooms 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 Crooms 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.show more