Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Old Vic

Posted on March 9, 2017 by mkmswain

Fifty years on, Tom Stoppard’s absurdist tragicomedy is back in the theatre where it had its professional premiere, and still just as dazzlingly virtuosic. If some of its gags, musings and metatheatrical tricks have since become overfamiliar through imitation, that’s surely testament to its enduring influence.

Read my full BroadwayWorld review here

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1 Response to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Old Vic

  1. Miss Bicknell says:
    March 9, 2017 at 11:11 am

    Excellent, insightful and witty. I think you were fair but truthful with a lovely point about fake news. xxx

    On 9 March 2017 at 10:19, MARIANKA SWAIN ~ WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW wrote:

    > mkmswain posted: “Fifty years on, Tom Stoppard’s absurdist tragicomedy is > back in the theatre where it had its professional premiere, and still just > as dazzlingly virtuosic. If some of its gags, musings and metatheatrical > tricks have since become overfamiliar through imita” >

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