Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Doug Eacho '11
In 1809, a thirteen-year-old girl tries to solve Fermat’s last theorem. Today, a scholar is convinced that Lord Byron killed a lesser poet in a duel. In 1809, a brilliant young tutor is caught in “carnal embrace” with that poet’s wife. Today, a mathematician desperately tries to find patterns in nature. Tom Stoppard’s comedy takes us back and forth between these two times as we see these intellectuals trying to dig order out of chaos, and to find life amidst death. Along the way, we are treated with diversions into thermodynamics, landscape design, geometry, latin translation, botany, and lots of Byron poetry. There’s also a live tortoise.
Cast:
(in order of appearance)
| Septimus Hodge | Boaz Munro ‘09 |
| Thomisina Coverly | Deepali Gupta ‘12 |
| Jellaby | Nicholas Rosholt ‘10 |
| Ezra Chater | Arik Beatty '10 |
| Richard Noakes | Jacob Combs ‘11 |
| Lady Croom | Emma Price ‘10 |
| Capt. Brice, RN | Jonathan Migliori ‘11 |
| Hannah Jarvis | Ana Escobedo ‘11 |
| Chloë Coverly | Katie Rhoads ‘11 |
| Bernard Nightingale | Ned Riseley ‘12 |
| Valentine Coverly | Justin Kuritzkes ‘12 |
| Gus Coverly | Kyle Dacuyan ‘11 |
Production Staff:
| Director | Doug Eacho '11 |
| Stage Manager/Asst. Director | Mark Stokely ‘11 |
| Set Design | Jenny Filipetti ‘09 |
| Lighting Design | James Hart '12 |
| Sound Design | Jacob Isbell ‘12 |
| Costume Design | Emily Fishman ‘11 |
| Asst. Costume Design | Margaret Lange ‘11 |
| Props Design | Emily Toner ‘10 |
| Music Selection and Performance | Katharine Joo ‘09 |
| Technical Director | Ria DiLullo ‘11 |
| Production Manager | Alex Lubensky '09 |
| Poster Design | Lilia Royanova ‘11]] |
| Board Liason | Drew Madden '10 |
| Build Crew | Matthew Haynes, Andrew Evans '09, Sam Alper '11, Katherine Cooper '09 |
| Electrics Crew | Arik Beatty '10, Drew Madden '10, Spencer Brody ‘10, Andrew Leber ‘12, Olivia Chi ‘10 |
