SUDS Presents: Arcadia
Event description
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.