Description from the official website: The UWM’s Peck School of the Arts Department of Theatre presents Arcadia, Tom Stoppard’s celebrated masterpiece tells the tale of two stories, over a century apart, intertwining. A play with a racing heart, Arcadia explores what it is that makes us human and our determination to keep dancing even as the darkness gathers and the universe grows cold.
This play was very difficult to follow since all it contained was dining-room table conversation for three hours about poetry, and then a final two minute waltz danced between two lovers at the very end. In the 19th century story, it focuses around a poet named Mr. Hodges who is in love with a young girl's mother, the young girl he's suppose to dance with in a historic garden. Flash forward to over 100 years later where a couple of British students are doing research on Mr. Hodge's now historic literature catalog as well as the location history.
I thought the play was informatively boring; hardly any movement from the cast whatsoever. The play only consisted of one set, which was a 19th century dining room. I feel this performance would most likely draw attention to an audience who is more into poetry and literature. This play was also very sexually dialogues, talking about the topic of sex and literature constantly.
All in all, I would not recommend this play to anyone besides poetry lovers. On the other hand, this performance may have been affected by the recent fire at the Peck Theater building. If that's the case, then it was an exceptionally well play that only had a month or two's worth of preparation.
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