Tonight, I saw my third Arcadia staging in my life. I liked it. It’s a good show, full of memorable lines, characters, and wry mathematical humor. It’s pretty classic Stoppard, and as such thoroughly entertaining and filled with academic references to things.
More than anything else, it made me want to do math. And write some sort of story based in two separate times.
I conceived of a half-baked plot during my college playwriting class that took place in two different periods of time, but I never actually sketched out what happened at the end. It also had a tinge of a horror element to it, which I feel never plays out that well on the stage.
We also walked around DC today and visited the Spy Museum where we helped stop a nuclear disaster, although I disagreed with my fellow agents, which would have potentially been a PR disaster for our fictional spy agency. I suppose that makes me not a great spy.
Tomorrow, we head back home in the afternoon, but our hopes are to get a tour of Ford’s Theatre tomorrow morning, along with some more Dunkin Donuts.
I did drink a Yuengling today, so that’s already in the books.
