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ARTWORK: Sian Williams
Science, Scholars & Sex: A Review of Arcadia By Rose Dixon-Campbell Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is a scholastic behemoth of a play and, as director Caelan Kaluder acknowledges, a mighty undertaking. The story follows two sets of characters: one rooted in the modern day and the other in the 19th century; both separated by time but joined by their affinity for and occupation of Sidley Park, Derbyshire. The 19th century ensemble live their lives of more or less ‘blissful’ aristocratic frivolity while those residing in the present day, a collection of academics, attempt to document those fateful histories to varying degrees of accuracy.
