Josh Wroblewski lighting designer

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

Presented by:

Nevada Conservatory Theatre

December 2012

Direction: Christopher V. Edwards

Lighting Design: Josh Wroblewski

Scenic Design: Devin Pierce Sheef

Costume Design: Mariya Radeva-Nedyalkova

Arcadia moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed into picturesque Gothic gardens, complete with a hermitage, thirteen year-old Lady Thomasina and her tutor delve into intellectual and romantic issues. Present day scenes depict the Coverly descendants and two competing scholars who are researching a possible scandal at the estate in 1809 involving Lord Byron. This brilliant play moves smoothly between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive influence of sex on our life orbits the attraction Newton left out. - Samuel French