Word: stoppard
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Lori E. Smith '93-'94 is Associate Editorial Chair of The Crimson. She spent most of 1991 on a kibbutz in northern Israel. "Cricket Bats and Cudgels," in case you were wondering, comes from Tom Stoppard's play "The Real Thing...
...story of Arcadia is, like most Stoppard plots, hard to summarize in much less than the three hours it takes on the stage. The action in both centuries unfolds in a stately home, a symbol at once of Britain's continuity and of its decay. The 19th century story focuses on a startlingly gifted 13-year-old girl and her tutor, a seemingly shallow, smug university man a decade older. The 20th century story focuses on the present generation of the girl's landed family and on two biographers who are probing Byron's connections to the house, investigating...
...deductions made about them in the present. At a deeper level the piece is a meditation on the chanciness of fame and the meaning of genius, strongly suggesting that the 19th century girl was a considerably greater figure than her celebrated house guest, Lord Byron. At its most profound, Stoppard's elegant dialogue addresses the competing principles of order and disorder in the universe...
...live comfortably within the same space, beguilingly designed by Mark Thompson. Nunn evokes exquisite performances, notably from Felicity Kendal as one of the 20th century scholars, and from Emma Fielding and Rufus Sewell as the brilliant girl and her initially charmed, ultimately doomed tutor. As usual in a Stoppard play, the true star is Stoppard, and he has never burned brighter or more kindly...
MUSIC A luminous CD set affirms the Beach Boys' place in pop history. THEATER Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is the best British play in years. BOOKS David Halberstam engrossingly surveys The Fifties. A brilliant, flawed novel by Richard Powers. CINEMA Rookie of the Year strikes out. SHOW BUSINESS Disney offers an uninspired stage extravaganza...