The Play Podcast - 113A - Arcadia Footnotes

Episode 113A: Arcadia Footnotes Host: Douglas Schatz Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We'll discuss the play's origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing. Tom Stoppard's dramatic masterpiece, Arcadia, is a teasing detective story, a joyous comedy, and an emotionally rich exploration of love and loss. It is also a play of ideas. These Footnotes supplement our main episode on Arcadia, with observations on subjects woven into the fabric of the play, including garden design, Fermat's Last Theorem, Iterated Algorithms and something called Fractals, the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Chaos Theory.