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| CAST LIST | PRODUCTION STAFF | |
| Thomasina Coverly
Septimus Hodge Jellaby Ezra Chater Richard Noakes Lady Croom Capt. Brice, RN Hannah Jarvis Chloe Coverly Bernard Nightingale Valentine Coverly Gus/Augustus |
Patti Herrera
Christopher Maddera Caleb Braudrick Josh Herndon Neal Caperton Kami McVey Jay Thomas Storm Watters Jacqueline Parker Paul Henderson Marcus Bilyeu Carsen Oostema |
Director.... Kirk
O. Mace
Producer .... Roger B. Drummond Dramaturge.... Dr. Ann Frankland Production Design.... Roger B. Drummond Costume Coordinators.... Marcia Vliet, Julie Bohannon Stage Manager.... Katya Yurasovskaya Light Board Operator....Michelle D. Turnham Sound Board Operator ....Heather Trent Properties....Crystal Logan Backstage – Running Crew.... Jason Clarke, Crystal Logan Costume Crew Julie Bohannon, Maggi Malcom, Alan Sutton Hair and Make-Up....Julie Bohannon Poster Design .... Patti Herrera Original Piano Music written and performed by.... Robert Lamar SET CONSTRUCTION CREW ....Marcus Bilyeu, Neal Caperton, Jennifer Case, Jason Clarke, Josh Herndon, Kirk Mace, Shane McClure, Carsten Oostema, Michelle D. Turnham and the Stagecraft class. SPECIAL THANKS TO:
The Regency Dresses were designed and made by Jennie Chancey at Sense and Sensibility Costumes. The Men’s Regency Costumes were rented from Heartland Scenic Studio Inc. – John Gergel – Costume Dept.
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The implications of the second law of thermodynamics are that disorder will increase until all energy is dissipated and all light and life are extinguished, ushering in the ominous-sounding heat death of the Universe. Every action involves a transfer of energy and in every transfer some heat is lost. For example, you can put back the pieces of a broken window but you can’t collect the heat of the break; it is gone. What are we to do in the face of such a bleak prognosis? In Arcadia, Thomasina has the answer. She simply say, “We shall dance.” The truth of Arcadia is in simplicity; the beauty is in the dance. Like Hannah, many of us think that we cannot dance, and in the physical sense that may be true, but remember that while the feet can learn the steps, only the spirit can learn the dance. It is in the dance of our lives that we circle and spiral, coming around to almost the same point but not quire in the same plane. Valentine explains the concept of iteration by saying that each value of Y is put back into the algebraic formula as the next value for X which creates another value for Y which is again put back as the next value for X and so on ad infinitum until the graph or picture is complete. For people, it is as if we are iterated by each of our experiences. We are the value of X before each experience transforms us into the value of Y. We then put that value of Y back into the equation of our lives as X and run the equation again, each experience plotting a point that will become the graph or fractal which is our existence. A very important theme in the play is that even though heat is lost, matter is not destroyed, only transformed. Nothing is lost to us that will not be found again, whether that be the books lost in the fire at Alexandria, or Thomasina herself lost in the fire at Sidley Park. The play is dedicated by Kirk Mace to his friend Carla Thurman: Until we meet again.
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