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A review by futurama1979
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
4.0
⟶ 4.5/5 stars
A once in a lifetime play that all at once stands as a piece of literature on its own and inspires the reader to imagine stagings and need to watch it play out. It's the classic story of a young genius who's cryptic work has been lost to the sands of time and the researchers and mathematicians who rediscover her equations, told in the most beautiful, witty, brilliant trans-temporal way imaginable.
If you like stories about history, time, mathematics, relationships, academia, tortoises, or all of the above, this is definitely the play for you. There were lines of this that were so to the point - either in humor or in poetry and sometimes both - that they just stopped me in my tracks. Another masterpiece by Mr. Stoppard all in all.
Only reason for 4/5 is that my standard is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and I have yet to find anything, even this gem, in the 20th century script world that lives up to it.
A once in a lifetime play that all at once stands as a piece of literature on its own and inspires the reader to imagine stagings and need to watch it play out. It's the classic story of a young genius who's cryptic work has been lost to the sands of time and the researchers and mathematicians who rediscover her equations, told in the most beautiful, witty, brilliant trans-temporal way imaginable.
If you like stories about history, time, mathematics, relationships, academia, tortoises, or all of the above, this is definitely the play for you. There were lines of this that were so to the point - either in humor or in poetry and sometimes both - that they just stopped me in my tracks. Another masterpiece by Mr. Stoppard all in all.
Only reason for 4/5 is that my standard is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and I have yet to find anything, even this gem, in the 20th century script world that lives up to it.