90 Acre Theatre Presents:
Arcadia at Victoria Mansion 

May 11 & 12
7:00pm-9:00pm

Join us for a special production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia by 90 Acre Theatre. Actors will perform a costumed staged reading of one of the finest contemporary plays set within the Mansion's Stair Hall and light refreshments will be served after the show.

Tickets are $35.00 and $30.00 for Victoria Mansion members. Click below to register now!

                  

Arcadia is set in Sidley Park, an English Country House, and takes place in both 1809/1812 and the present day. The activities of two modern scholars and the house's current residents are juxtaposed with those of the people who lived there in the earlier period.

In 1809, Thomasina Coverly, the daughter of the house, is a precocious teenager with ideas about mathematics, nature and physics well ahead of her time. She studies with her tutor Septimus Hodge, a friend of Lord Byron (an unseen guest in the house). In the present, writer Hannah Jarvis and literature scholar Bernard Nightingale converge on the house: she is investigating a hermit who lived on the grounds; he is researching a mysterious chapter in the life of Byron. As their studies unfold – with the help of Valentine Coverly, a post-graduate student in mathematical biology - the truth about what happened in Thomasina's time is gradually revealed.