Article: Mind over matter.(playwright Tom Stoppard)

Theater: In an age of sound bites, Tom Stoppard, whose `Arcadia' arrives this week, turns on audience by demanding that they turn on their brains

Tom Stoppard is a seducer with a difference. He's after your mind, not your body. He, starts his play Arcadia with an adorable 13-year-old girl who asks her tutor, "Septimus, what is carnal embrace?" Immediately the audience is his. "This is going to be fun!" they think. They're right, except it's not quite that kind of fun. Stoppard's most carnal embraces are for ideas, and "Arcadia," which opens at New York's Lincoln Center this week, is his most virtuoso effort at keeping your mind in heat. Stoppard's unmatched mastery ...

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