The popularity of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" owes a great deal to the play's brilliant weave of themes and ideas, declined through characters from two different historical periods " Romantic and modern. There is breathtaking brio in the way the writer's skill combines so many different strands, with both humour and irony: from the mathematics of Fermat's theorem to the exploration of fractals, and from the limits of ra…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PM on April 5, 2014