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</I>on 8/1/14<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #363636; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Tom
Stoppard’s "Arcadia," currently being staged by the </SPAN><SPAN
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Theatre Company,</SPAN><SPAN
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is the kind of play that separates the men from the boys and the women from the
girls among theater goers. <SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #363636; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Extravagantly
lengthy, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">opulently
wordy and intellectually challenging</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #363636; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">,
this play tests one’s endurance while this production of it – beautifully
directed by Christine McBurney with particular attention given to the thread of
frivolity that weaves its way through the script – makes the arduous journey
well worth the while.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“Arcadia”
is set in a drawing room that overlooks the garden at Sidley Park, an English
country estate in Derbyshire, England.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The play alternates between the present day and the turn of the
19<SUP>th</SUP> century, as the estate’s time-separated inhabitants’ exploration
of </SPAN><SPAN
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relationship between order and chaos, certainty and uncertainty, and fact and
fiction</SPAN><SPAN
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becomes increasingly permeable as the play progresses.</SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #252525; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">At
the very center of this play – which has the feel of a mystery but the heart of
a comedy of manners – is </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">the
unquenchable human urge to acquire knowledge, whether carnal, mathematical,
literary, historical or metaphysical. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“It’s the wanting to know,” says
one of the characters toward the end of the play, “that makes us matter” and
which drives this story.<SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">When the play opens it
is 1809 and we meet </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #252525">Thomasina Coverly, a
precocious teenager with ideas about science and nature that are significantly
ahead of her time (played by an enthralling Meghan Grover, who captures every
ounce of her character’s playfulness and unbridled inquisitively).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She is seen studying with her tutor,
Septimus Hodge.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #252525"><FONT size=3>Young Mr.
Hodge (played with immense charm by Jason Kaufman) is a bit of a
rapscallion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He talks his way out
of duels with minor poet and Sidley Park guest Ezra Chater (an affable Stuart
Hoffman, who walks a fine line between comedy and clowning) with the same casual
dexterity he employs while talking his way into a woman’s bed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #252525"><FONT size=3>His
conquests include Chater’s wife (never seen in this play; a delectable ploy by
the playwright) and Sidley Park hostess Lady Croom (played with the perfect air
of entitlement by Valerie Young). <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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