I... am pretty sure that's the nerdiest play I've ever seen.

[tenlittlebullets]

Just got back from Arcadia. It was... oh dear god it was like seeing a Neal Stephenson novel adapted for the stage. I thought it was awesome but the people on either side of me walked out during intermission, haha. Too much brainfuck? Too much infodump? Waaaay too nerdy? Who knows. But seriously, Stoppard and Stephenson need to go out for drinks sometime. And record the conversation for posterity.

Also I somehow managed to turn up half an hour before the show and ask for student rush and get Row E center. In a crowded theater. Yeah, I don't know how that happened, maybe God wanted there to be at least one person in the building who'd get carded buying booze.

...somebody convince me I don't need to see it again tomorrow.

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[strokemybow.livejournal.com]

Arcadia?

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Arcadia.

[ladybranwen.livejournal.com]

I would so totally see it again. Go!

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Noooo! You're supposed to help me resist!

[citoyenne.livejournal.com]

Just commenting to say that I am overwhelmed by the awesomeness of you icon.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Heee, thanks. :D I figured that with all the George Sand fangirling that happens in this journal, I need at least one icon of her.

[citoyenne.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. My head explodes when I find even the smallest scrap of George-fangirling - there's far too little of it out there.

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

I am unable to prevent you from going again, as I adore all of Stoppard's nerdiness. Check out Travesties - it's James Joyce, Tristan Tzara, and Lenin (plus the girls from The Importance of Being Earnest and an actual real British government official) in Zurich in 1917.

I think the only reason I managed to refrain from going to Arcadia again was that I got comps to go to Rock 'n' Roll again. I'm not so secretly hoping that the London revival will transfer to NY because I want to see it again and again and again.

(also, there is Septimus/Byron slash on Yuletide because Arcadia fans are awesome.)

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

(also, there is Septimus/Byron slash on Yuletide because Arcadia fans are awesome.)

skl;jasdfadsf *will have to go find that as soon as lunch and laundry are done*

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

But seriously, Stoppard and Stephenson need to go out for drinks sometime. And record the conversation for posterity.
yesthis.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Because seriously. Anyone who can open a play with "What's carnal embrace?" and end with a Regency teenage girl discovering the second law of thermodynamics just needs to go out for drinks with the guy who came up with Half-Cocked Jack and goes off on random digressions about how a spinning bicycle wheel is like the Riemann zeta function.