Events Details
| Arts, Drama : Arcadia | |
| Open.. from 08/07/2008 to 08/07/2008 | |
| Starts: | 20.00 |
| Description: | 1809: momentous events occur one weekend at Sidley Park, Lady Croom`s stately home. Lord Byron is a house guest. The beautiful gardens are being turned into Gothic chaos by landscape gardener Culpability Noakes. Teenage prodigy Thomasina (Lady Croom`s daughter) invents the second law of thermodynamics, to the surprise of her tutor, the rakish Septimus Hodge. And discovering that someone has been interfering with his wife in the gazebo, poet Ezra Chater sends for pistols – and disappears from history . . . 2008: ambitious academic Bernard Nightingale visits Sidley Park looking for evidence to support his theory about what really happened that fateful weekend - a theory which could make his fortune. Forming an uneasy alliance with writer Hannah Jarvis, who is researching a history of the gardens, and Valentine Coverley, a spiky mathematics student (and direct descendant of Lady Croom), Bernard attempts to piece together the mysterious events of 1809 . . . Two worlds, two centuries apart, edge closer and closer together, until past and present collide. And finally, the truth is revealed . . . A detective story, a historical romance, an ode to the art of landscape gardening and a comic celebration of human desire, Arcadia is a modern masterpiece: funny, intelligent, audacious and deeply moving. Winner of the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best New Play in 1994, PFT is delighted to be staging the Scottish première production. |
| Contact: | Box Office (event) |
| Phone: | +44 (0)1796 484626 (event) |
| Email: | boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk (event) |
| Web: | http://www.pitlochry.org.uk (event) |
| Venue: Pitlochry Festival Theatre | |
| Address: |
Pitlochry
Perthshire
PH16 5DR map to venue
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| Phone: | +44 (0)1796 484626 (venue) |
| Fax: | +44 (0)1796 484616 (venue) |
| Email: | boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk (venue) |
| Website: | http://www.pitlochry.org.uk (venue) |
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