Leveaux to Direct Broadway Revival of ARCADIA
David Leveaux is set to direct te upcoming Broadway revival of Arcadia, which is to begin rehearsals in early 2011. Leveaux, who most recently directed Cyrano de Bergerac, is a five time Tony Award nominee. As previously repoted by Broadwayworld, Billy Crudup is expected to return to Broadway in the show.
Arcadia received its world premiere in 1993 at the National Theatre. Directed by Trevor Nunn, the production transferred to the West End and then to Broadway. Tom Stoppard went on to win both the Laurence Olivier Award and the New York Drama Critics' Best New Play Award.
The play takes place in April 1809 at a stately home in Derbyshire.... Thomasina, a gifted pupil, proposes a startling theory, beyond her comprehension. All around her, the adults, including her tutor Septimus, are preoccupied with secret desires, illicit passions and professional rivalries. Two hundred years later, academic adversaries Hannah and Bernard are piecing together puzzling clues, curiously recalling those events of 1809, in their quest for an increasingly elusive truth.
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