Familiarity with the play is preferred. Copies of the script are available at several LI public libraries. Contact only via the email. Do NOT call the library regarding the show or audition. Audition will consist of readings from the script.
Rehearsal Dates
Varied schedule. Performances: Matinees November 4th and 5th. Possible November 3rd performance to accommodate over-flow.
Performance Dates
Matinee on 11/4 at 2 pm. Matinee on 11/5 at 1:30 pm. Show will start promptly.
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."
Auditon Location/Date/Times
Type
Location
Date
Time
Appointment
Levittown Public Library 1 Bluegrass Lane Levittown
TBD
TBD
Roles
Role
M/F
Age
Description
Val
M/F
0+
Ivy Lane Players are seeking a replacement in the role of "Val" for its upcoming production of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" which will be performed the first weekend of November 2023 at the Levittown Public Library. British accent required. Good diction a must. No children will be cast.