The play is set in a stately home in Derbyshire, the fictional Sidley Park. In 1809, 13-year-old Thomasina (Isis Hainsworth, excellent), a mathematical prodigy with an enquiring mind, delights and ...
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Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is a famously difficult play. A programme for Carrie Cracknell’s revival contains a glossary to help ...
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Stage notes: Arcadia at the Old Vic

One of Britain’s most playful playwrights Tom Stoppard passed away at the end of November 2025 – so there’s no better time, ...
Arcadia is not The Real Thing. Whilst the latter is indubitably Stoppard’s masterpiece, the former is overwritten, ...
"How can we sleep for grief?", asks the brilliant and agitated Thomasina Coverly (the dazzling Isis Hainsworth) during the first act of Arcadia, a question that will come to haunt this magisterial ...
A new London production of the playwright’s masterpiece has extra poignancy just months after his death.
Following Tom Stoppard's death last year, Arcadia is a fitting tribute, a reminder of his wit and warmth – wonderful theatre.
The late playwright’s tumbling, centuries-spanning exploration of the human condition is lovingly revived at the Old Vic ...
Tom Stoppard’s intellectually thrilling and romantically stirring masterpiece is back on the London stage. What a shame the ...