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...opening scene of Tom Stoppard's Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead seems ironic, because the play is now worn like an old coin from passing through the hands of so many directors. Although it's been 16 years since its original minting, this weekend's Dunster House performance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hasn't lost its edge. The innovation of two Shakespearean anti-heroes on center stage, the stark contrast between Elizabethan and modern language--and the themes of the finality of death, the role of fate and the insignificance of human life--are not dulled even after many staging...
...stage is spare--swathed in a smoothing blue gauze--forcing the actors' charisma to sustain the show. Rosencrantz (Jim Torres) and Guildenstern (Steve Kelner) meet this demand; with exaggerated facial expressions and wild gestures, their compressed energy matches Stoppard's verbal swashbuckling, his inevitable bons mots...
...roles, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern present a unique difficulty--while at times interchangeable, the characters must create enough tension to sustain interest. The actors handle this problem well: Both bearded and flashing sparkling eyes, they at once mesh with and foil each other. Kelner's quizzical manner provides the needed contrast to Torres' air of blank amusement...
Being Master "was very enjoyable, but it was taking time away from research and teaching," says Barbara G. Rosencrantz '44, who was Master of Currier House from 1974 to 1979. "Five years is a long time," she adds. David A. Aloian '49, who took over as Master of Quincy House this year from longtime Master Charles W. Dunn, says he may have changed the House's tone slightly by enforcing College alcohol rules more strictly, but that he has striven to keep continuity by adhering to Quincy House rituals like the fall Exorcism and the spring rose-planting...
...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--Boston Shakespeare Co. Theater, 300 Mass Ave., Boston...