SUDS Presents: Arcadia

By Tom Stoppard

8th - 18th March; 7PM

The Cellar Theatre

Sex, academics, and dwarf dahlias collide in a swirl of past and present, order and disorder — all in the microcosm of a Derbyshire country estate. In 1809, Thomasina Coverly is the gifted teenaged daughter of the house, theorising about mathematics, nature, and physics ahead of her time. Her tutor Septimus Hodge is a critic with a gift for ridicule and a taste for seduction. In 1992, writer Hannah Jarvis and literature professor Bernard Nightingale converge on the house: she is investigating a hermit who lived on the grounds; he is researching a mysterious chapter in the life of Lord Byron. They are helped by Valentine Coverly, a post-graduate in mathematics studying grouse, and together they uncover the lost knowledge of the past. Come for comedy, chaos, and carnal embrace.

TICKETS:

SUDS $3 / ACCESS $5 / Concession $7 / Adult $12

CAST

Thomasina: Ruby Zupp

Septimus: Charlie Papps

Lady Croom: Danny Cabubas

Ezra Chater: Mali Lung

Noakes: Adele Beaumont

Jellaby: Mary Franklin

Gus/Augustus: Gemma Hudson

Hannah: Amber Broadbent

Bernard: Max Danta

Valentine: Eimer Hayes

Chloe: Emma Kulish

PRODUCTION CREW

Director: Tilda Wilkinson-Finch

Producer: Pat Fuccilli

Assistant Director: Bella Wellstead

Creative Director: Lily McGuinness

Set Lead: Annie Lewis

Set Assistants: Dom Ephraums, Jess Hill

Props Lead: Nicki Weiss

Props Assistant: Luca D'Andreti, Arieta Varvaressos

Costume Lead: Victoria Gillespie

Costume Assistants: Tom Findlay, Liam Fitzgerald

Sound Designer: Chiara Minotto

Sound Operator: Emily Clements

Lighting: Luna Ng

Lighting Assistant: Stuart Rich

Art: Miya Sywak

Graphic Designer: Amelia Vogelsang

Photography: Yang Wu

Hair: Zara Eggers

Makeup: Lucinda King

Stage Managers: Adelaide Tustian, Barrett Wagner

Wellbeing Officer: Mariika Mehigan

CONTENT WARNINGS

Coarse Language

Sexual References

References to Death and Gun Violence

Sexist Language

Mild Homophobia

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

SUDS acknowledges that the University of Sydney and the Cellar Theatre reside on stolen land; the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. As a society that exists to tell stories, it is important to acknowledge that stories were being told on this land for thousands of years before British colonisation. SUDS pays respect to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded – Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.

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