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Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia (Bedlam, Fall 2023)
This post is written with the assumption you basically know this play already. Sorry!
Last night, Austin and I went to go see the Bedlam production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. I love Bedlam—I even watched (and bought!) some of their weird web series that they put out during COVID. I loved their production of Persuasion back in 2022. (I was very sad to miss their production of The Winter’s Tale, my favorite Shakespeare play, last year.)1 They just really feel like maniacs in the best way, like they love the theater and are constantly scheming about how to do another play.2
I have no sense of whether or not they are actually an institution that is constantly flying by the seat of its pants, but they certainly cultivate the feeling that they do.3 The production of Arcadia feels like the director was…