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Having utilized Shakespeare to resonant effect in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard now offers playgoers the flippest of flip sides. In Dogg's Hamlet, the first of two interrelated playlets, Stoppard telescopes tag lines and famous scenes to distill the doings of the broody Dane into a dizzying quarter-hour of comic relief. Then he caps it off with an even dizzier reprise, a 204-word two-minute version. In the larger version, Hamlet gets as far as "To be, or not to be . . ." when Ophelia pipes up "My lord," only to be scaldingly dismissed with...
...Stoppard sits down at a keyboard of words, and plays upon them with wickedly clever virtuosity. Few can resist his cerebral variations on the themes of Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Importance of Being Earnest in Travesties...
...gifted German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder hired Playwright Tom Stoppard, author of that Nabokovian whimsy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, to adapt Despair for the screen. Except for one grave lapse, he has done so effectively and with suitable reverence, and Fassbinder has assembled a first-rate cast...
...Thousand Clowns--Leverett Old Library at 8 and 11:15 Scenes from the Comedy of Errors--Loeb Ex at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Camelot--Belmont Dramatic Club at 8 p.m. Noah--Laurie Theater, Brandies, at 8:30 p.m. The Tempest--8:15 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead...
Monday Rosmersholm--8:00 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead...