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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They accept their deaths calmly, hopefully. ("Well, we'll know better next time.") In this hint of optimism, there is perhaps hope for surviving in a world in which "we drift through time, clutching at straws." And, when Stoppard shows us part of Hamlet's final scene, the English Ambassador's pronouncement "that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" elicits the audience realization that death may be the only event it can count on in an insane universe...
...been written before Beckett come along, it is every bit a peer for Waiting for Godot. The comic and tragic elements, brilliant in themselves, are ingeniously balanced and woven into the Hamlet framework. The dialogue flows like nothing I've heard in a long time, and Stoppard uses the English language with more precision than any other playwright around...
...gave her a bit of rock he called "a tiny piece of the moon." Shortly thereafter, the painter invited the young actress for tea. "That afternoon," he remembers, "I had received a beautiful box of butterflies, and I had them on the table when she came in. We had English muffins with honey, and as she talked she took one butterfly out of the box, put it on top of the honey and ate it. She finished all twelve butterflies...
Full House. To bring out the play's down-to-earthness, Hall filmed it not in a studio but in a tangled English wood located only twelve miles from Stratford-on-Avon. Though it rained continuously, Hall and his shivering actors tramped for six weeks through the forest with hand-held cameras-"they give a sense of breathing," says Hall-trying to capture what he calls "that wet, steaming, glistening quality that only an English summer can have...
...concert was "a dream come true" for the greatest busker of all, Don Partridge, 26, who plied his trade in the streets of London for five years singing traditional English and American folk songs. One day last winter, a record company executive named Don Paul heard Partridge sing his own song, Rosie, on a street corner; he liked its cheerfulness and Partridge's McCartneyesque style...