Matinee on 11/4 at 2 pm. Matinee on 11/5 at 1:30 pm. Show will start promptly.
Cost
Free tickets available in advance at the Levittown Public Library. Contact library for information. 516 731-5728
Ticket Info
516 731-5728
Description
The play opens in a large country house -- Sidley Park -- in Derbyshire in April 1809, when Lady Thomasina Coverly, a precocious thirteen-year-old, asks her tutor, Septimus Hodge to explain "carnal embrace" and we are off and running into a farcical comedy of manners. Sidley Park's idealized garden landscape is about to give way to the Gothic style: "everything but vampires," as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 200-plus years later. Bernard has arrived to uncover a scandal and murder which he believes occurred when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park. Tom Stoppard’s masterful play takes us back and forth between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life - "the attraction which Newton left out."
Note
Building is ADA-compliant. Anyone who requires reserved seating should contact the library and advise. 516 731-5728