Arcadia

Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts 

Bad Habit Productions takes on Tom Stoppard’s intellectual play that spans two time periods; the piece opens in Victorian England, where young Thomasina Coverly (Alycia Sacco) proves herself to be a mathematical prodigy in her lessons with tutor Septimus Hodge (Greg Nussen). The play switches back and forth between Thomasina’s era and present-day England, where historians Hannah Jarvis (Sarah Bedard) and Bernard Nightingale (John Geoffrion) argue in their attempts to unravel the mysteries Thomasina left behind. Daniel Morris directs.