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Tom Stoppard's, "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" was directed and produced by Michael Robertson, in a two act show performed at the Whitney Fine Arts Theatre on Loring Park. Colored and patterned with existentialism and feelings of absurdity, the two main characters Rosencrantz (played by Michael Snyder) and Guildenstern (played by Kyle Bowe) emerge and encounter a world where their meaning is arbitrary and where they become victims of seemingly random circumstances they neither proscribe nor control. The set (tastefully created by Rick Polenek) was simple, abstract, and somewhat bare. There were many levels, a center raised disk, (which is where the excerpts from Hamlet's court [Colin Healy, Katrin Bachmeier, Mathew Falk, Jane Davich, and Jack Fits] within the pl
"Do you want to play questions" is one of the most memorable scenes from the show. During this dialogue, Roz and Guil run out into the audience- breaking the aesthetic distance between themselves and the audience and ask each other questions related to the contingent nature of man's existence. The audience was particularly amused during this incident, and when Roz and Guil left the stage once again to grab their programs and announce their ambiguity toward the intermission that was soon to follow. In the world which they inhibit, there doesn't seem to be a firm line drawn between life and death, the latter is merely an exit, casual, unexciting, as insignificant as the details of the lives they live. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern simply disappear. Are they dead? Will they return to repeat the experience next time? We don't really know. But what is so trivial
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