ARCADIA by Tom Stoppard, directed by Trevor Nunn, designed by Mark Thompson, produced by Michael Codron, Duncan C. Weldon, and the Royal National Theatre. Recorded at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in May 1995. Cast includes Lucy Whybrow, Edward Adderton, Julie Legrand, Timothy Bentinck. The play is a dazzling exploration of order and disorder, certainty and uncertainty in nature and human nature, Newtonian physics and Chaos theory and the connections between and impact of Classical and Romantic theories of the world in science and the arts. 3 hrs 15 mins, 3 cameras
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