Arcadia

Arcadia follows two groups of people, separated by almost two centuries, who occupy the same room in an English country estate called Sidley Park. In the first group, a young man tutors a precocious 13-year-old girl who discovers the mathematical concept of fractals. The estate is awash with romantic liaisons and couplings; important and unimportant poets are paying visits; and a radical change in the landscaping is discussed. The time is the early 19th century.

The second group, living in the present, consists of some descendants of the first, plus two competing historians. Hannah Jarvis writes about history, and Bernard Nightingale teaches it. The two are intoxicated by the possibility that the English poet George Byron was involved in a sexual peccadillo at Sidley Park, and their investigation of that provides the dramatic tension of a mystery being unraveled. (Taken from a review by Damien Jaques).

NB. Sunday's performance starts at 7pm