"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts
everywhere but to those who have a right to them."--Tom Stoppard,
Arcadia In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits
Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus
Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the "five hundred
acres inclusive of lake" where Capability Brown's idealized
landscape is about to give way to the Gothic style: "everything but
vampires," as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard
Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later.
Bernard has arrived to uncover the scandal which is said to have
taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park. Tom Stoppard's
masterful play takes us back and forth between the centuries and
explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between the
Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive
influence of sex on our orbits in life--"the attraction," as Hannah
says, "which Newton left out."
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