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THEATRICALLY AND intellectually, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of the last decade's most awesome dramatic conceptions. An ingenious retelling of Hamlet from the point of view of that tragedy's two incidental victims, this piece of absurd theater involves difficult staging, acute psychological insight, and beautiful language which demands highly subtle direction and acting...
...timing and emotional control of the lead characters is excellent. Pope Brock plays an appropriately ingenuous, high-strung and thoroughly bewildered Rosencrantz to Bernie Holmberg's pompous, melodramatic, and equally bewildered Guildenstern. The most intense monologue of the play and much of its dramatic focus belong to the Head Player of the troupe performing at Elsinore, a part skillfully played by Chris Josephs. He is the most noble, though he appears the most decadent, of the major characters. The times being "wicked," he supports himself with obscene tableaux, though he is the only figure who understands and carries...
...meaningful by the approval of audiences, enjoy advantages that people in an indeterminate world do not share. While love and providence provide meaning for the characters of Shakespeare, Stoppard's people have no external frame of reference. Unable to see that they themselves create the significance of their actions, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are caught in a world where their identities and their living and dying are equally arbitrary...
...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...