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This Week in Literary History: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia Premieres in London

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This Week in Literary History: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia Premieres in London
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On April 13, 1993, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia—a play now considered to be his masterpiece—opened at the Royal National Theatre in London, in a production directed by Trevor Nunn and starring, among others, Rufus Sewell as Septimus Hodge and Bill Nighy as Bernard Nightingale. It won the Olivier Award for Best Play (for the record, that year’s Tony for Best Play went to Love! Valour! Compassion!) and ran for over a year i

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