Stoppard's ARCADIA Revived W/ Son Ed Stoppard Leading Cast

Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is to be revived this summer at the West End's Duke of York's Theater. The show will be directed by David Leveaux and include a cast lead by Ed Stoppard, the author's son. Along with Stoppard, the cast will also include Neil Pearson, Dan Stevens, Nancy Carroll and Jessie Cave.

According to whatsonstage.com, "the story begins in April 1809 at a stately home in Derbyshire where Thomasina, a gifted pupil, proposes a startling theory, beyond her comprehension. All around her, the adults, including her tutor Septimus, are preoccupied with secret desires, illicit passions and professional rivalries. Two hundred years later, academic adversaries Hannah and Bernard, are piecing together puzzling clues, curiously recalling those earlier events, in their quest for an increasingly elusive truth."

Ed Stoppard has appeared in The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet and On The Rocks.

The show will have a limited run from June 11- September 12, 2009.