this essay i will be looking at the two plays ‘Arcadia’ by Tom Stoppard, and ‘An Experiment With An Air Pump’ by Shelagh Stephenson, a play inspired by the painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright. I will be looking at how both plays are structured and staged and discussing why it is done in those particular styles. ‘An Experiment With An Air Pump’ include two plots, one of which is set in 1799 and the other in 1999. The two stories are set in the same large house in Newcastle