{"product_id":"arcadia","title":"Arcadia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Stoppard''s masterpiece, with a beautiful new cover. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eComparing what we’re looking for misses \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe point. It’s wanting to know that makes us \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ematter. Otherwise we’re going out the way \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ewe came in.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArcadia \u003c\/i\u003epremiered at the National Theatre, London, 1993, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Play and the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e Award for Best Play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003cb\u003eIt is a laugh-filled tragedy about what happens if you take \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe intoxicants of poetry and science seriously.\u003c\/b\u003e It is a play where Stoppard turns himself into a clown whose juggling balls are Romanticism, Classicism, and the meaning of life . . . \u003cb\u003eThe stale cliché about Stoppard is that he is a brilliant manipulator of ideas, but with no heart. Yet here – at the core of his best play – is the greatest love story on the British stage for decades.\u003c\/b\u003e Yes, the characters bond over ideas – but some of the most interesting people in life do just that. That would be enough to make \u003ci\u003eArcadia\u003c\/i\u003e a masterpiece – but it is even more than that. \u003cb\u003eThe play stirs the most basic and profound questions humans can ask.\u003c\/b\u003e How should we live with the knowledge that extinction is certain – not just of ourselves, but of our species?’ INDEPENDENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘I have never left a new play more convinced that I’d \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewitnessed a masterpiece.’ \u003c\/b\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A brilliant, brilliant play. A play of ideas, of consummate \u003c\/b\u003etheatricality, of sophisticated entertainment and of heartache \u003cb\u003efor time never to be regained.’ \u003c\/b\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57307954577790,"sku":"NW9780571169344","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571169344.jpg?v=1778646767","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/arcadia","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}