Arcadia
Direct by Ron Bashford
Showing
Kittredge Theatre on the Warren Wilson College Campus
March 7-10th 7:00pm
March 11th 2:00pm
Free for students
$8 for area students, senior citizens, WWC staff, and alumni
$12 for general admission
For reservations please call the Box Office at
(828) 771-3040
Press Release
Warren Wilson Theatre continues its 2006-2007 Season of Light and Dark with renowned playwright Tom Stoppard’s contemporary comic masterpiece Arcadia. Directing the talented twelve-member cast in this ambitious production is guest professional director, Ron Bashford, who led students in last year’s Warren Wilson production of Thornton Wilder’s classic American play, Our Town. Mr. Bashford is a frequent collaborator with Asheville’s North Carolina Stage Company, where he will be directing two shows this season.
Arcadia will perform five times only, Wednesday March 7th through Saturday March 10th at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 11 at 2:00 p.m. Performances will take place at Kittredge Theatre on the Warren Wilson College Campus. The show is free to Warren Wilson College students. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for area students, senior citizens, and WWC staff and alumni. Those wishing to make reservations should contact the Warren Wilson Theatre Box Office at (828) 771-3040.
Tom Stoppard is perhaps best recognized for penning the screenplay to the popular film "Shakespeare In Love" and for his plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Real Thing. He was recently deemed "Britain’s cleverest playwright" by the BBC. In his 1993 comedy Arcadia, Stoppard delves into a fascinating mystery of love, science, literature and landscape, pitting the inhabitants of an English estate in 1809--the world of Romantic poet Lord Byron--against the obsessions of a colorful group of researchers in our own time. Hoping to make sense of the past, they careen delightfully through all manner of topics: chaos theory, archeology, sex, love, fame, and the meaning of existence in a rapidly changing world. The New York Times called the play "Tom Stoppard’s richest, most ravishing comedy: a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and emotion." Since its debut, the play has been widely regarded as an enduring masterpiece, performed at theatres all over the world.