Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Description
Tom Stoppard's 1967 breakout, a backdoor inversion of Hamlet by way of Waiting for Godot, remains an ingenious enterprise. Stoppard shows us ?R and G's deleted scenes, on the sidelines between their appearances in Shakespeare's text. Michael Halberstam's handsome production nicely emphasizes Stoppard's conceptual trickery, with Collette Pollard's smart scenic design suggesting a metaphysical backstage. Longtime associates Timothy Edward Kane and Sean Fortunato have the kind of easy comic rapport that's earned, not faked.—KV
When
Tonight 7:30pm
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Fri 8pm
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Sat 4pm, 8pm
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Sun 2pm, 6pm
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Tue 7:30pm
Ongoing through Dec 6.