Arcadia

by Tom Stoppard

Scenic Design Concept
1/2" scale model

A century before her time, Thomasina plots a leaf mathematically to deduce its equation and draws a diagram of heat exchange, respectively discovering a way to predict population changes and the theory of entropy. Two hundred years later in present day, new inhabitants of the house  use clues from the past to assert their own means and rewrite history, unsuspecting of the 17 year old girl in their findings to be of any significance. Gradually, science and art, love and reason explode into chaos, revealing the truth about Thomasina and the effortless, sublime, inevitability of entropy in all forms.