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Screenplay by Tom Stoppard...
...Stoppard employs an almost cinematic technique of cutting between actual scenes from Hamlet and his own invention. His manner is witty without being jarring, and the cast of this production are careful that the transitions are as natural and unnatural as the playwright intended...
Casting Heather Gunn as Rosencrantz might at first seem an unusual choice, but Stoppard's playful revision, Gunn's outstanding performance and the sexual ambiguity of the characters in Shakespeare's own version ultimately all make the casting choice an effective...
...Stoppard was well aware that the actors in the Bard's time were all men, and he exploits the ambiguous sexuality in the work. Witness the "tragedian" boy-prostitute, Alfred (Jon Finks), who fumbles constantly with the folds of the skirt he repeatedly dons and sheds. And there's the added nuance of the the implications of the close relationship between Rosencrantz and Guildenstern--the title characters cannot even tell themselves apart...
Glenn Kiser is also delightful as the aggrieved Prince of Denmark. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Stoppard imparts a bit more method into Hamlet's madness than can be found in Shakespeare's text, and Kiser adds a devilish glitter to the part...