English Touring Theatre and Theatre Royal Brighton Productions will tour a revival of Tom Stoppard's comedy Arcadia.
The first major national tour since 1993, and over 20 years since the play has been seen by audiences around the UK, this new production is directed by Blanche McIntyre.
The cast includes Dakota Blue Richards, who makes her stage debut as Thomasina, with other cast including Kirsty Besterman, Robert Cavanah, Tom Greaves, Nakay Kpaka, Ed MacArthur, Charlie Manto, David Mara, Flora Montgomery, Wilf Scolding, Larrington Walker and Ria Amitrowitz.
Arcadia explores the delicate relationship between past and present through a portrait of two generations of an aristocratic family as the focus moves from 1809 to now and back to the past.
First premièred at the National Theatre in 1993 directed by Trevor Nunn, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia won the 1993 Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best New Play. It has twice been produced on Broadway, winning the 1995 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and the 2011 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
This production sees a new collaboration between English Touring Theatre and Theatre Royal Brighton Productions. This is English Touring Theatre's second time working with director Blanche McIntyre this year, following the tour of Noël Coward's Tonight at 8.30.
Tom Stoppard said, "I'm delighted that a new tour of Arcadia, directed by the young visionary Blanche McIntyre, is to take place this year reaching audiences across the UK. The current challenges for regional theatre in the UK mean that a production of this scale and quality are very rarely toured."
The production opens at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking on Monday 23 February, playing there until Saturday 28 February.