Tom Stoppard's Arcadia

Intriguing, challenging and witty – but also heartfelt – this play has been widely acclaimed as Stoppard’s masterpiece.

In 1809 the grounds of a stately home are being reconstructed in the newly popular ‘picturesque’ style. Amid towering crags and waterfalls will be a lonely hermitage, for which a real, living hermit will have to be found.

Two centuries later, as an author and an academic pursue their very different lines of research, the hermit will be discovered to have been a madman. But what had driven him to madness, what was the purpose of the piles of notes discovered with his body, and what part had the young daughter of the house played in his tragic life?

Crossing the centuries – and changing notions of the Arcadian dream – are mysteries of history, sex, chaos theory and Newtonian equations; and an accusation of murder against Lord Byron. SATTF is proud to present Arcadia as its first contemporary theatre production.