Word: rosencrantzes
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...ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD and, even while living, they weren't too sure who they were, why they were alive or why they were summoned to Elsinore. Tom Stoppard's work is both witty and wise, drawing its humor from the device of looking at the events around Hamlet through the eyes of the addled house guests, and its humanity from the universality of a situation in which men cannot understand the orders handed them by fate...
...ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, or is it Guildencrantz and Rosenstern, are Shakespeare's Tweedledee and Tweedledum and Tom Stoppard's hapless heroes. Buffeted about in the maelstrom of emotions and events at Elsinore. they are pulled out of their niches to do they know not what, nor to what purpose. Actors John Wood, Brian Murray and Paul Hecht respond like finely tuned instruments to Stoppard's inciteful prose and Derek Goldby's insightful direction...
...ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD puts a Shakespearean duo in a Pirandellian situation, then confers on them Beckettian angst mixed with Beyond the Fringe humor. British Playwright Tom Stoppard's play is well served by the acting of Brian Murray and John Wood and the direction of Derek Goldby...
...ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD might be called Two Characters in Search of a Plot. British Playwright Tom Stoppard takes his protagonists from the wings of the Globe and sets them stage center to wonder, with coruscating wit and in spiritual desolation, who they are and what they are doing at Elsinore. Scintillating performances by Brian Murray and John Wood endow the evening with rousing theatricality...
...ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD takes the little men of Shakespeare and transforms them into the little Every-men of Beckett. In his American debut, British Playwright Tom Stoppard, 30, offers an agile, witty play that snaps with verbal acrobatics and precisely choreographed dances of the mind, while coming heartbeat close to the pity and terror of mortality. In the title roles, Brian Murray and John Wood are phenomenal, and Derek Goldby's direction has tensile strength...