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Stoppard’s heroes are the doomed, thick-headed duo of the play’s title. Though they are only minor characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Stoppard allows Rosencrantz (Bobby A. Hodgson ’05) and Guildenstern (Geordie F. Broadwater ’04) to show the events in and around the play from their own shared perspective. They’re hard to tell apart; you could say that Guildenstern is the smart one, but that wouldn’t be saying much. They’re both incredibly dense, easily confused, and utterly...
Hoagland more than holds his own, doing limber and sonorous work, but the show really belongs to Broadwater and Hodgson. They’re always on stage, ceaselessly searching for life’s secrets even though they wouldn’t recognize a secret if it bit them in the codpiece. And both actors telegraph their dumb anxiety with skill: their practiced spontaneity doesn’t seem practiced in the least—every laugh line feels unforced, each note of despair feels natural...
...addition to addressing technical shortages, Hodgson says he hopes to institutionalize the Visiting Director Project for subsequent semesters. He says student-actors have spoken often of the invaluable experience of working for Lorenzaccio in the fall under the auspices of professional visiting director Jay Scheib...
Though the tech problem remains one of the most important issues Hodgson says he and the HRDC board will address in the coming months, he insists that improvements will come largely from building on the successes of the tech requirement...
...Hodgson says he will also work to include expanding academic courses offerings in the dramatic arts for undergraduates. Though this semester saw a broader range of course offered, including courses on production dramaturgy and vocal production for the stage, Hodgson says there will be a push for more courses next semester. “I’m excited about this season,” Hodgson says. “We try to do our best to bring whatever people get excited about and make it happen...