ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
Tom Stoppard
Directed by Stanley Spenger
October 19 through November 20, 2007
Winner of both the Tony and NY Drama Critics Circle awards. Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are the college chums of Hamlet and their story is what happened
behind the scenes in Shakespeare's play. What were they doing there in Elsinore
anyway? "I don't know; we were sent for." They are not only anti agents, but
also anti sympathy, anti identification, and in fact anti persons, which is
uniquely demonstrated by their having such a hard time recollecting which of
them goes by what name. The Players come and go; Prince Hamlet comes through
reading words, words, words; foul deeds are done; Hamlet is sent abroad,
escapes death; and in turn Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find their "only exit
is death."
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