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Arcadia
The Tobacco Factory, Bristol
5/5
ANDREW HILTON directs his first non-Shakespearean play at the Tobacco Factory with the same clarity of depiction that characterises all his work.
Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia demands such an approach if its complex intertwining of ideas, artistic styles and exploration of knowledge is to be fully appreciated.
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MARY CONWAY becomes impatient with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class
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Although this production was in rehearsal before the playwright’s death, it allows us to pay homage to his life, suggests MARY CONWAY
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