Arcadia By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Rebecca Greene Udden
Main Street Theater - Rice Village
2540 Times Blvd.
Previews
May 8, 9 and 12, 2010
Performances
May 13 - June 6, 2010
Held over until June 20!
Regular Performance Times
Thursdays - 7:30pm
Fridays and Saturdays - 8:00pm
Sundays - 3:00pm
Call 713-524-6706 for Tickets For groups of 10 or more, please call Andrew Ruthven, Director of Audience Services, at
713-524-3622 x102.
“It’s the best possible time to be alive, when everything you thought you knew is wrong.” In Tom Stoppard’s time-traveling
masterpiece, Arcadia, the time is 1809, as the Coverly gardens are being transformed to the Gothic
picturesque and the young genius Thomasina is forming a startling scientific theory while the adults around her are
preoccupied with illicit passions and professional rivalries. The time is also two hundred years later, as academic
adversaries Hannah and Bernard piece together puzzling clues from 1809 in their search for an increasingly elusive
truth about Lord Byron and his connection to the Coverlys. Both worlds intersect and even collide as the quests
for knowledge and passion run their courses, and everyone is forced to confront the reality of the attraction Newton
left out.
First produced in 1993, Main Street Theater presented the Houston premiere in 1996 at its then newly-opened
Chelsea Market theater.
Rated PG-13 – Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Children under the age of 5 are not allowed in the theater.
Views from Arcadia
Following the performances on May 23 and 27, we hope you will join us for these discussions
with our noted guests, the cast, and director Rebecca Greene Udden:
May 23 - Professor Terrence A. Doody, Rice University
May 27 - Dr. John H. Lienhard, host of KUHF 88.7 FM’s “Engines of Our Ingenuity”
Raffle
Be sure to enter our raffle for a chance to win a copy of Arcadia autographed by the playwright, a pair of tickets on Southwest Airlines, a $50 gift certificate to British Isles, or a membership to the Blaffer Gallery!
Parent Play Date
Saturday, 5/29, drop your 6 – 11 year olds at Chelsea Market while you head to the Village to
see Arcadia. Call 713-524-6706 for more information.
