Little Theatre to present ‘Arcadia’

Prince William Little Theatre will present Tom Stoppard's acclaimed British work "Arcadia" for the next three weekends.

Fresh off a run at Washington's Folger Theatre, "Arcadia" is directed by Carl Brandt Long and produced by Dave Warner.

The show will be performed at Round Elementary, 10100 Hastings Drive, Manassas, on Nov. 7, 13, 14, 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 8, 15, and 22 at 2 p.m.

The show is considered PG-13 with some strong language and mature situations.

The show stars local actors Tegan Cohen, William MacLeod, Sara Joy Lebowitz, George Kitchen, Jack Seaver, Michael S. Sandoval, Elizabeth Heir, Charlotte Guthery, Daniel Kitchen, Michael Divers, Michael Feidt Jr. and Richard Yingling. The show is stage managed by Michael Clark and costumes by Sevinc Bailey.

"Arcadia" is set in an English country house in the beginning of the 19th century and in the present day, juxtaposing the activities of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there two centuries earlier.

In 1809, Thomasina Coverly is a precocious teenager with ideas about mathematics well ahead of her time. She studies with her tutor, Septimus Hodge, a friend of Lord Bryon. In 2009, a writer and an academic converge on the house. As their investigations unfold, the truth about what happened in 1809 is gradually revealed.

The all-volunteer Little Theatre has been providing local community plays since 1984.