Arcadia [electronic resource]
Stoppard, Tom2009
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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe's influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in the year 1809-1812 and 1989, the play examines the lives of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier. The New York Times calls Arcadia: "Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date. A play of wit, intellect, language, brio and emotion," and The Royal Institution of Great Britain calls it: "the best science book ever written." Includes an interview with Steven Strogatz, the author of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos and professor at the Cornell University School of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Kate Burton as Hannah Mark Capri as Chater Jennifer Dundas as Thomasina Gregory Itzin as Bernard Nightingale David Manis as Cpt. Brice Christopher Neame as Noakes and Jellaby Peter Paige as Valentine Darren Richardson as Augustus Kate Steele as Chloe Serena Scott Thomas as Lady Croom Douglas Weston as Septimus Directed by John Rubinstein. Recorded at the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Arcadia is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.
Main title:
Arcadia [electronic resource] / Tom Stoppard
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Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : L.A. Theatre Works, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
Relativity
Biography/History:
The works of distinguished British playwright Tom Stoppard include The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll. Stoppard has also worked on a number of films: He directed and wrote the screenplay for the film of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead which won the Prix d'Or at the Venice Film Festival 1990 for Best Film. Stoppard also wrote the screenplay adaptation Shakespeare in Love, which won him an Academy Award for best original screenplay, a Golden Globe, the Broadcast Film Critics and American Guild Awards for Best Screenplay 1998. He also co-wrote the screenplays for Terry Gilliam's Brazil; Raymond Chandler's Poodle Springs; Robert Harris' Enigma (starring Kate Winslet) and Steven Spielberg's Oscar nominated Empire of the Sun, starring John Malkovich and a young Christina Bale.
Awards:
Listen Up Award (Publishers Weekly)
ISBN:
9781580815970
Language:
English
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BRN:
300323
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