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lillibetToday I wrote a blurb about the play I'm directing this spring to go on the website. I'm really pleased with how it came out.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is an amusing and thought-provoking
backstage view of Shakespeare's Hamlet from the perspective of two of that
play's minor characters. Tom Stoppard's most famous play (also a motion
picture starring Tim Roth, Gary Oldman and Richard Dreyfuss) is a whimsical
yet serious examination of identity and purpose, unfolding as these characters
struggle to understand their own roles in the drama that has caught them up
without explanation or instruction.
Influenced by sources as wide-ranging as Shakespeare, T.S. Elliott, and
Samuel Becket, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead combines lyrical poetry
and existential conundrum with Stoppard's snappy dialogue as our unwilling
protagonists stumble toward their own conclusions.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is an amusing and thought-provoking
backstage view of Shakespeare's Hamlet from the perspective of two of that
play's minor characters. Tom Stoppard's most famous play (also a motion
picture starring Tim Roth, Gary Oldman and Richard Dreyfuss) is a whimsical
yet serious examination of identity and purpose, unfolding as these characters
struggle to understand their own roles in the drama that has caught them up
without explanation or instruction.
Influenced by sources as wide-ranging as Shakespeare, T.S. Elliott, and
Samuel Becket, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead combines lyrical poetry
and existential conundrum with Stoppard's snappy dialogue as our unwilling
protagonists stumble toward their own conclusions.
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Date: 2003-12-12 07:06 am (UTC)Dry Prose
Date: 2003-12-12 09:27 am (UTC)This is the "if you know nothing about this show, here's what it's about" bit.
Suggestions welcome.