Bury Theatre Royal

Set in a beautiful country house in Derbyshire, Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece Arcadia merrily skips between 1809 and the present day.

Bestselling author, Hanna Jarvis, researches the history of the estate’s garden, whilst her academic rival, Bernard Nightingale, is on the trail of a possible sexual scandal involving Lord Byron! We get to enjoy their investigation into what they think happened, with all the academic infighting, in contrast to what really happened all those years ago. All the events of the play are presided over by Lightening the tortoise and he’s not telling any of the family’s secrets.