Arcadia London tickets
Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece returns to London, directed by Carrie Cracknell. Opening at the Duke of York's Theatre for a strictly limited summer run, book your official tickets to Arcadia today.
About Arcadia
Brilliant minds. Burning hearts. The timeless pull between chaos and order.
A country house becomes the meeting point for genius across centuries in Tom Stoppard’s witty, moving and playful drama. In 1809, a teenage prodigy races ahead of her time, exploring mathematics, nature and the unpredictable forces that shape both the universe and the human heart.
In the present day, modern scholars return to the same house, piecing together its past as they search for truth, proof and perhaps something more elusive.
As past and present intertwine, questions echo across time: can we ever fully understand the patterns of life, or are we always on the brink of disorder?
It’s worth the applause
- Arcadia won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1993, and went on to win the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and a Tony Award for Best Play.
- Tom Stoppard is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation, and is the recipient of an Oscar, Olivier Award and 5 Tony’s. He was given a knighthood for his contribution to theatre in 1997.
- In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture.
Arcadia creatives
- Writer - Tom Stoppard
- Director - Carrie Cracknell
- Set - Alex Eales
- Costume - Suzanne Cave
- Lighting - Guy Hoare
- Sound - Donato Wharton
- Movement - Ira Mandela Siobhan
- Composer - Stuart Earl
Arcadia cast
- Thomasina Coverly - Isis Hainsworth
- Septimus Hodge - Seamus Dillane
- Hannah Jarvis - Nikki Amuka-Bird
- Bernard Nightingale - Oliver Chris
- Lady Croom - Yolanda Kettle
- Valentine Coverly - Angus Cooper
- Chloë Coverly - Holly Godliman
- Gus Coverly / Augustus Coverly - Matthew Doswell
- Richard Noakes - Aaron Anthony
- Ezra Chater - Matthew Steer
- Captain Brice - David Buttle
- Jellaby - Tim Frances