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Arcadia (by Tom Stoppard) is presented by L.A.Theatre Works. This standalone audiobook app combines aprofessional audio recording with supplemental features fordownload-once, grab-and-go anywhere enjoyment.

Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia merges science with human concerns andideals, examining the universe’s influence in our everyday livesand ultimate fates through relationship between past and present,order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in anEnglish country house in the year 1809-1812 and 1989, the playexamines the lives of two modern scholars and the house’s currentresidents with the lives of those who lived there 180 yearsearlier.

The New York Times calls Arcadia: “Tom Stoppard’s richest, mostravishing comedy to date. A play of wit, intellect, language, brioand emotion,” and The Royal Institution of Great Britain calls it:“the best science book ever written.”

Includes an interview with Steven Strogatz, the author ofNonlinear Dynamics and Chaos and professor at the CornellUniversity School of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Kate Burton as Hannah
Mark Capri as Chater
Jennifer Dundas as Thomasina
Gregory Itzin as Bernard Nightingale
David Manis as Cpt. Brice
Christopher Neame as Noakes and Jellaby
Peter Paige as Valentine
Darren Richardson as Augustus
Kate Steele as Chloe
Serena Scott Thomas as Lady Croom
Douglas Weston as Septimus

Directed by John Rubinstein. Recorded at the Invisible Studios,West Hollywood.

This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Seriesfeaturing science-themed plays. Major funding for the RelativitySeries is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhancepublic understanding of science and technology in the modernworld.

DURATION: About a 3 hour performance.

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