Word: stoppard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more mature about these things, so when this play, the work of a young Englishman named Tom Stoppard, showed up at the Shubert as part of a post-Broadway tour, I went to the theatre cool and detached, as if I were visiting the scene of a long forgotten love affair. But theatrical love affairs, like that other kind, can be suddenly rekindled. Sure enough, I left the Shubert ready to go back again the next night...
THIS PLAY --and, to be honest about it, I hardly can begin to describe it--tells the story of two of Shakespeare's most anonymous characters as they walk in and around the doings at Elsinre in Hamlet. The title characters of Stoppard's play, in case you have forgotten them, are two friends of Hamlet's from university days who are summoned by Claudius to help ascertain the nature of Hamlet's madness...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Tom Stoppard's reincarnations of Shakespeare's bit players are part Beckett, part Charlie Brown. In the title roles, Brian Murray and John Wood prove themselves linguistic acrobats...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Tom Stoppard's inside look at Hamlet, takes the little men of Elsinore and transforms them into little Everymen...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. In Tom Stoppard's arresting drama on inevitability, the Wittenberg Wunderkinder wander around Elsinore like two extras to whom no roles have been as signed, and who cannot even decipher whether they are part of a comedy or a tragedy...