Arcadia at the Old Vic Review: a Fitting Tribute to Tom Stoppard's Genius

Arcadia at the Old Vic review: a fitting tribute to Tom Stoppard's genius

This wonderful meditation on love, death and mathematics dances through the mind and the heart

‘Arcadia’ review – Tom Stoppard’s slog of a script is somewhat saved by intelligent direction

The classic from the late Tom Stoppard is revived at the Old Vic Theatre.

Arcadia at the Old Vic is a brilliant farewell to Tom Stoppard

Arcadia | Old Vic | ★★★★☆ Arcadia is a dizzying piece of work, as broad as the universe and as self-contained as a jigsaw puzzle. Through it Tom Stoppard addresses some of humanity’s great questions: do we have free will? Is poetry more important than science? Is there anyone Lord Byron didn’t shag? It opens in the Sidley Park country estate sometime in the early 19th century, with 13-year-old aristocrat Thomasina Coverly receiving a lecture fro…

The ha-ha at the end of the universe: Arcadia is the perfect play for the apocalypse

Carrie Cracknell takes on Tom Stoppard's masterpiece Arcadia at The Old Vic, the first production since the playwright's death. Chaos ensues.