| [Fic] Fifty-Five Crystal Spheres Geared to God's Crankshaft :: PG :: Gen :: 1/1 |
[28 Jul 2010|08:35pm] |
Title: Fifty-Five Crystal Spheres Geared to God's Crankshaft
Author: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) chaletian
Fandom(s): Arcadia/Doctor Who
Rating: PG
Summary: There are two things Thomasina notices when she wakes, coughing, the night before her seventeenth birthday. The first: her bedchamber is on fire (heat exchange only works one way; this is very bad). The second: a large blue box has appeared (it's blue). It has a door, which opens, and through the stinging smoke, Thomasina sees a man step out, and wave his arm.
Author's Note: Written for the Awesome Ladies Ficathon (Part 2).
fic at my lj
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| Arcadia icons! |
[06 Aug 2009|01:15am] |
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Just posted a set of icons here that includes six from the current production of Arcadia.
Mods, please delete if this isn't allowed!
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| Soliciting prompts. |
[24 Jul 2009|05:13am] |
Hi. I'm Eugene. I'm an English teacher. I like Stoppard. I write. I'd like to write some Stoppard fic. Is there anything this comm would particularly like to see done?
The plays I can claim to know the best are The Invention of Love and Arcadia.
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| Hello! |
[13 Jan 2009|12:32pm] |
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Hi, I'm Sarah, and I *just* discovered Tom Stoppard. My parents bought me a collection of his plays for Christmas (Arcadia, The Real Thing, Night and Day, Indian Ink, and Hapgood), and I fell in love with his work. I'd read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead several years back, and loved it, but it never really registered with me to read more of his works (I know - stupid me). But he is AMAZING!
I'd have to say that my favourite play right now is Night and Day, though I looooved Arcadia as well.
That's about it, really. Glad this community exists!
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| The Invention of Love |
[22 Jun 2008|08:32pm] |
Hi guys, I'm really new to Tom Stoppard's work. I started reading The Invention of Love because I knew that Robert Sean Leonard had won his Best Supporting Actor Tony for it. And so I made some icons. I hope that's alright with the mod.
12 The Invention of Love (on Broadway [2001])
  
here @ my icon community. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.2) soonish
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| Vanity Fair articles about Rock 'n' Roll |
[10 Oct 2007|10:52am] |
Really about how in the hell Syd Barrett, of all people, ended up in Rock 'n' Roll, of all plays (since I happen to agree with Stoppard that it's about Czechoslovakia, consciousness, and a smattering of Sappho). Includes some quotes but no major spoilers.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/11/stoppard200711
And this one is a more overarching Q&A about the play, again with no major spoilers (actually, a less potentially spoilery read than Stoppard's Syd Barrett piece).
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/11/stoppard_qanda200711
Oh, and the Plastics were in DC a couple weeks back. I didn't go to the gig because there's something odd to me about the whole thing, that it's legitimate and fake all at once - the band still exists, but it's a mix of a few of the old crew and some new post-Velvet Divorce Czechs.
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| Tony Awards |
[11 Jun 2007|11:51am] |
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Big congratulations are due to Tom Stoppard, as well as everyone involved in the productions of his Utopia trilogy in New York. The Coast of Utopia won seven Tony Awards last night (it was nominated ten times). Nice to see it so honored!
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| New Yorker article |
[29 Jan 2007|11:28pm] |
Here's an article from the January 8th issue of The New Yorker. I will try to get a scan of the accompanying photo up as soon as possible.
( article )
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[28 Jan 2007|11:16am] |
So, I haven't seen much about Rock 'n' Roll here, I guess because it's mostly Americans....but I went to see it last night in London and it knocked me six kinds of sideways. The last Stoppard play I saw was The Invention of Love, and while I loved that too, it was kind of a scholarly affair, whereas this - well it's just so great to see him using rock music as the basis for all his intellectual flights of fancy. It's so good to see something dealing with the politics of the 60s and 70s which doesn't underestimate how important the music was. Between every scene of the play you get blasts of Dylan, the Stones, Pink Floyd, and the Czech band Plastic People of the Universe become an important part of the plot machinery. What's amazing is how, with all the political discussions flying around, you come to care so much about the personal relationships involved as well - there's a love story in Rock 'n' Roll which really gets to you (or it got to me anyway). Of course the dialogue is what you'd expect from Stoppard - it's brilliant. The arguments about the rights and wrongs of communism completely fascinated me, and there's some awesome explorations of how best to oppose a totalitarian government: Jan, a lefty student, argues that becoming a dissident is not only pointless, but actually represents a buying-in to the System:
The policeman isn't frightened by dissidents! Why should he be? Policemen love dissidents, like the Inquisition loved heretics. Heretics give meaning to the defenders of the faith. Nobody cares more than a heretic. Your friend Havel cares so much he writes a long letter to Husak. It makes no odds whether it's a love letter or a protest letter. It means they're playing on the same board.
And so he advocates the very Sixties idea of "dropping out" of political discourse altogether. Events of course make him change his mind, but I won't give too much away for those who haven't seen it. Some of the conversational comebacks are pretty wonderful too, not least Eleanor's memorable line to one of her husband's admirer's:
And, Lenka, don't try to shag my husband till I'm dead, or I'll stick The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance up your rancid cunt, there's a dear.
...which had the elderly couple next to me choking on their Malteasers. Anyway it's not on in London for much longer, so if you get a chance to see it I thoroughly recommend it. It also has the best closing seconds to a play I can ever remember seeing - I left the theatre wanting to cheer at the top of my voice.
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| NTY Magazine article 11/26 |
[26 Nov 2006|11:52am] |
I come bearing scans! They are, alas, but mediocre scans as I have an ongoing battle with my scanner, but they're readable and that's what matters.
( yay scans )
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[13 Nov 2006|01:27am] |
( So, I went to see Coast of Utopia: Voyage last night. )
In semi-related news, has anyone made Coast of Utopia (or Arcadia) icons or know where I might find some? And what was the quote about illusionary tea? Must buy scripts! Google is not being very helpful, nor is my memory.
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