{"product_id":"9780571169344-arcadia","title":"Arcadia","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow should we live with the knowledge that extinction is certain - not just of ourselves, but of our species?' INDEPENDENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I have never left a new play more convinced that I'd \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewitnessed a masterpiece.' \u003c\/b\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brilliant, brilliant play.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive edition of Tom Stoppard's masterpiece. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eComparing what we're looking for misses \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe point. It's wanting to know that makes us \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ematter. Otherwise we're going out the way \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ewe came in.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArcadia \u003c\/i\u003epremiered at the National Theatre, London, 1993, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Play and the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e Award for Best Play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It is a laugh-filled tragedy about what happens if you take the intoxicants of poetry and science seriously. It is a play where Stoppard turns himself into a clown whose juggling balls are Romanticism, Classicism, and the meaning of life . The stale cliché about Stoppard is that he is a brilliant manipulator of ideas, but with no heart. Yet here - at the core of his best play - is the greatest love story on the British stage for decades. Yes, the characters bond over ideas - but some of the most interesting people in life do just that. That would be enough to make \u003ci\u003eArcadia\u003c\/i\u003e a masterpiece - but it is even more than that. The play stirs the most basic and profound questions humans can ask. How should we live with the knowledge that extinction is certain - not just of ourselves, but of our species?' INDEPENDENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I have never left a new play more convinced that I'd \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewitnessed a masterpiece.' \u003c\/b\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brilliant, brilliant play. \u003c\/b\u003eA play of ideas, of consummate theatricality, of sophisticated entertainment and of heartache for time never to be regained.\u003cb\u003e' \u003c\/b\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30323268288609,"sku":"9780571169344","price":8.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36408917_700067db-a2fb-470f-b9c3-aa28f69bb961.jpg?v=1759483794","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571169344-arcadia","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}