Arcadia: Jemima Rooper interview & more blog reviews

ES Magazine have added a lovely interview with Jemima Rooper who mentions Tom.

Before we started rehearsals I popped over to New York to visit my favourite freckly friend Tom Riley, who is in Arcadia on Broadway. As a born and bred Londoner, New York is pretty much the only other place I could see myself living. On our last day we treated ourselves to a burger and fries from Shake Shack before storming the Met and ignoring all the modern art in favour of the African stuff, which was very phallic and entertaining.

There is a lovely brief review on this ticket discount site (hint, hint...buy tickets!) while this blogger loved Tom's performance in Arcadia.

But to me the star of the show is Tom Riley, who plays Septimus Hodge, Thomasina's tutor and a contemporary of Lord Byron. In his Broadway debut, Mr. Riley's Septimus is both bright and dashing, imparting knowledge to Thomasina while simultaneously recognizing that her intellect exceeds his own. The relationship between Septimus and Thomasina, and the conclusion that their story reaches at the end of the show, is one of the most emotionally resonant aspects of the play. I was surprised that Mr. Riley was overlooked for a Tony nomination for his work.