Arcadia

Watched this play on Broadway a couple of weeks ago and then bought the play script to read. I must admit, it's been a long while since I watched a play that left me thinking for a long time. An aside here - I think the play might be better read than watched! What is brilliant about the play is that it seemingly leads you in one direction so that at the beginning, you follow along an investigative path; as you come to the end of Act one however, the play's philosophical interest comes to the forefront. It is encapsulated in the question asked right at the beginning "do you think God is a Newtonian" and the merger of investigation and philosophical debates, sexual love and mathematics, past and present all leads to the very powerful climax and the very problem of sponaneity that confounds determinism.