Wednesday, November 28, 2007

"Arcadia" playing this weekend

The New Revels Players will be performing Arcadia at the McKinley Foundation on Fifth and John. The performances will take place this weekend on November 30th and December 1st (Friday and Saturday). Take a break from studying and lose yourself in the theater!

Here's a synopsis of the play from Wikipeida.com:
"Arcadia is set in Sidley Park, an English country house in the years 1809 to 1812, and the year 1989, juxtaposing the activities of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier.

In 1809, Thomasina Coverly, the daughter of the house, is a precocious teenager with ideas about mathematics well ahead of her time. She studies with her tutor, Septimus Hodge, a friend of Lord Byron, who is an unseen guest in the house. In 1989, a writer and an academic converge on the house: Hannah Jarvis, the writer, is investigating a hermit who once lived on the grounds; Bernard Nightingale, a professor of literature, is investigating a mysterious chapter in the life of Byron. As their investigations unfold, helped by Valentine Coverly, a post-graduate student in mathematical biology, the truth about what happened in 1809 is gradually revealed."

Lauren Mietelski
Callboard Director
Senior in English, Sec Education

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