Arcadia
What do fractal geometry, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, chaos theory, classical horticulture, gothic architecture, carnal embrace, and Lord Byron’s sex life have in common? They are all ingredients in Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece comedy thriller Arcadia, the final UW Drama production of the 2009-2010 season.
But you won’t need a higher degree in nano computing or quantum mechanics to have a good time with this play. Arcadia is emphatically not a dramatized academic seminar, but a tightly executed theatrical tour de force which is part satire, part detective-story, part debate about determinism and free will, part celebration of the ungovernable curiosity about the world around us.
Considered by many one of the greatest plays of our time, Arcadia celebrates the human thirst for knowledge fully cognizant that such knowledge will forever be elusive. Yet in the pursuit of sexy ideas about the universe it also celebrates universal ideas about sex, the one unpredictable “attraction which Newton left out” in his deterministic model of the world.
Hannah Jarvis and Bernard Nightingale
Hannah Jarvis and Bernard Nightingale
Thomasina Coverly and Septimus Hodge
Exzra Chater, Septimus Hodge and Captain Edward Brice RN
Exzra Chater, Septimus Hodge, Captain Edward Brice RN and Lady Croom
Valentine Coverly, Bernard Nightingale and Hannah Jarvis
Thomasina Coverly and Septimus Hodge
Exzra Chater and Septimus Hodge
Valentine Coverly and Hannah Jarvis
Lady Croom and Septimus Hodge
Thomasina Coverly
Valentine Coverly and Hannah Jarvis
Thomasina Coverly, Valentine Coverly, Septimus Hodge and Hannah Jarvis
Septimus Hodge
Winter 2010 Production
By Tom Stoppard
Directed by: Gerd Hauck
Performances: March 11-13, & 18-20, 2010
Venue: Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building
Cast
Eileen Li (Thomasina Coverly)
Reid Vanier (Septimus Hodge)
Josh Campbell (Jellaby)
Paul Carere (Ezra Chater)
Joseph Lauria (Richard Noakes)
Sarah Sosnoski (Lady Croom)
Chai Lavie (Capt. Edward Brice RN)
Kristi Dukovic (Hannah Jarvis)
Adam Proulx (Bernard Nightingale)
Caitlin Robson (Chloe Coverly)
David Morgan (Valentine Coverly)
Greg Johnson (Gus/Augustus Coverly)
Creative Crew
Director - Gerd Hauck
Set & Lighting Designer - Laird MacDonald
Costume Designer - Jocelyne Sobeski
Stage Manager - Laisa Gillis
Assistant Stage Managers: Krysten Brown, Katie Honek, Hannah Michielsen
Program: Chai Lavie, Josh Campbell, Greg Johnson
Composers: Sascha Janko Dragicevic, Sigur Rós, Adele, Franz Liszt, Keith Jarrett, Joseph Hayden
Poster: Yen Chu
Production Crew
Production Manager - Scott Spidell
Student Production Manager - Darcy Patrick
Technical Director - Gil Lesperance
Sound Operator - Tom Duff
Lighting Operator - David Metcalfe
Publicity: Robin Atchison, Jana Zacharias
Costumes Crew: Kate Burns (Head), Leeanna Caligagan, Aviva Dreksler, Adele Robert, Stephanie lonnides, Anthony Fick, Jenny Hunter, Laura Reitzel
Carpentry/Paint Crew: Gil Lesperance (Head Carpenter), Hannah Michielsen (Head Painter), Jenn Schmolling, Jessica Singh, Mark Moon, David Buil
Lighting: David Metcalfe (Head), Deanna Underwood, David Morgan, Patrick Pinnell, Chai Lavie, Lauren Charette
Props: Reid Vanier (Head), Brittany Leite, Sarah Sosnoski, Olivia Ng, Lauren Theobalds, Emily Brame
Front of House - Jana Zacharias
Special Thanks
Lois Andison and Orest Tartaryn, Blair Benson, Blyth Festival, Canadian Stage Company, Elisabth Honek lan McKenzie (Geography), Hannah Michielsen, UW Grounds Keeping