Word: rosencrantzes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROSENCRANTZ AND GILDENSTERN ARE DEAD by Tom Stoppard: Harvard Dramatic Club director Arthur Lasky, Loeb Experimental Theatre May 4-6 7:30 PM FREE...
...small experimental productions have not been neglected, and both the Loeb Ex and various Houses will provide a wide scope of choices for theatre-goers. Describing the Ex's first weekend as "an amusing 'Waiting for Godot'," director Arthur Lasky '72 goes on to clarify his production of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead." Written by Tom Stoppard, it is a version of "Hamlet" seen from the perspective of two characters on the periphery of the action, "which gives the whole thing a sense of existential displacement." The following weekend, Arthur Fainsod '73 will be directing Ionesco's "Victims of Duty...
...which is how to keep well-intentioned authority from marking his mind before it can grow an adequate protective shell, he does it without the self-pity that might be expected of a young writer. His Raul is induced to return to school temporarily, where he performs brilliantly as Rosencrantz in a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rosencrantz is more or less his role in life at the moment...
Escape literature is the term generally used to designate a chickenhearted conspiracy of writers and readers who do not want to face up to real life. But as Playwright Tom Stoppard noted in his existential comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an exit is always an entrance some place else. One of the most original, whimsical escape artists in contemporary American writing is Richard Brautigan, who is definitely some place else...