Word: rosencrantzes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play called Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead, two of Shakespeare's littlest characters wander around the edges of one of the most aesthetically sound "systems" of all time, Hamlet. But they don't know what to make of it. Ophelia runs around and Hamlet endlessly rants on. It all looks so stupid and pointless...
...Rosencrantz and Guilderstern play games and tell jokes to survive. They feel that their surroundings are beyond understanding. They cannot revolt against it all: they are going to die anyway Why bother to understand...
Robert Downey wanders around a system, too. The Advertising World America. He does not wander around with a motorcycle, but he has a camera. He records things as he sees them. It doesn't have to make sense. It shouldn't make sense. Like Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. Downey has developed a sensibility for chaos...
PROVINCETOWN, MASS. Playhouse. They were extras around Hamlet's Elsinore. When Tom Stoppard's spotlight shines on them in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, they are found to be heroes of flashing wit but blinking comprehension, unsure whether they are involved in a comedy or a tragedy...
...Boston After Dark has become a rich newspaper. And the demand it created was so great that even Parke Sullivan couldn't get tickets to Rosencrantz. And they're moving the garbage to make room for Ken Opin. And Steve Mindich, who was one of five young critics in the nation chosen as a Eugene O' Neill Memorial Foundation Fellow, wears a pink and green and yellow tie patterned like a Mondrian painting. And there's birthday party for a newspaper on March 4. And a Business School graduate is interested in expanding Boston's cultural horizons...