The Gothamist interview - Arcadia & all night ping pong

A brilliant new interview with Tom has been posted on The Gothamist website, where he discusses Arcadia on Broadway, New York and all night ping pong. Tom also explains how they have overcome the earlier audio problems found in previews. Read the full interview on the website. 

We were out there trying very hard to get across these complicated, complex lines that were echoing within the set, within the auditorium. A lot of the ends of our lines and consonants were vanishing, which makes it of course hard to understand. But that's since been fixed. They actually put some downstage mics on the front of the stage, and speakers in the areas of the auditorium where people were missing bits, so we managed to kill that problem, fortunately. For the first few weeks, it was certainly something we had to take into account, slowing down and being clearer, because we didn't realize that the auditorium would be so echo-y.

More reasons to go see Arcadia on Broadway!! A great review on Mercury News blog, another reviewer here who loves the play (but not Tom's wig), and a theatre-goer who felt so strongly that the New Yorker review was entirely wrong, they wrote a letter. 

Arcadia is worth seeing, hearing, experiencing, and then thinking about, in whichever production. It is just such a brilliantly smart play....