Exploring the relationships between past and present, the hunt for academic recognition and respect of one another's colleagues, Arcadia has been described as the perfect play for a University town. Set in two time periods, 1809 and 1993, in the same room of a grand country estate house in Derbyshire, England, Arcadia is the latest offering by Charles Sturt University's (CSU) third year theatre-media students. Ms Annabel Scholes, lecturer at the School of Communication at CSU at Bathurst  says playwright Tom Stoppard has interlaced the themes of love, art, science, literature, sex, mathematics, academic writing and music between the two time periods. "The play is very witty and funny - it appeals to us in contemporary society as so many of the concerns our characters face in 1809 are still the same issues we face today," Ms Scholes said.