rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead
Mon, 1 July 2002, 04:03 pmdi day1 post in thread
rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead
Mon, 1 July 2002, 04:03 pmI saw it last Friday and can hardly contain my impatience to see it again. It's splendid although I am slightly saddened at the lack of notes from director John Milson - I was hoping to get the definitive statement as to what it's all about. Assuming it could possibly be about the uncertainty of the human condition, about the lack of logic and justice in life and death, it's a fabulous exposition. The black, agrressive, terrified, sarcastic yin of Guildenstern (Eliot McCann) is beautifully balanced by the smiling, sunny, bumbling yang of Rosencrantz (Tony Petant).
Or not.
Stoppard's script is rich with puns and wordplay, and Milson's cast give it full value. Conrad Crisafulli as The Player is notable.
The production is so perfectly paced that the episodic script on that large Dolphin stage fairly crackles along. The staging is classically bare and the costumes most imaginative.
For a night of maidens aspiring to godheads - and vice versa - it can't be beat.
IS it about the human condition?
Di Day
Or not.
Stoppard's script is rich with puns and wordplay, and Milson's cast give it full value. Conrad Crisafulli as The Player is notable.
The production is so perfectly paced that the episodic script on that large Dolphin stage fairly crackles along. The staging is classically bare and the costumes most imaginative.
For a night of maidens aspiring to godheads - and vice versa - it can't be beat.
IS it about the human condition?
Di Day
di dayMon, 1 July 2002, 04:03 pm
I saw it last Friday and can hardly contain my impatience to see it again. It's splendid although I am slightly saddened at the lack of notes from director John Milson - I was hoping to get the definitive statement as to what it's all about. Assuming it could possibly be about the uncertainty of the human condition, about the lack of logic and justice in life and death, it's a fabulous exposition. The black, agrressive, terrified, sarcastic yin of Guildenstern (Eliot McCann) is beautifully balanced by the smiling, sunny, bumbling yang of Rosencrantz (Tony Petant).
Or not.
Stoppard's script is rich with puns and wordplay, and Milson's cast give it full value. Conrad Crisafulli as The Player is notable.
The production is so perfectly paced that the episodic script on that large Dolphin stage fairly crackles along. The staging is classically bare and the costumes most imaginative.
For a night of maidens aspiring to godheads - and vice versa - it can't be beat.
IS it about the human condition?
Di Day
Or not.
Stoppard's script is rich with puns and wordplay, and Milson's cast give it full value. Conrad Crisafulli as The Player is notable.
The production is so perfectly paced that the episodic script on that large Dolphin stage fairly crackles along. The staging is classically bare and the costumes most imaginative.
For a night of maidens aspiring to godheads - and vice versa - it can't be beat.
IS it about the human condition?
Di Day