Last weekend the Philosophy and Theater Group had our monthly discussion, and this time Phillip Cherny and myself talked about Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, a tremendously clever, meta-fictional play which fills offstage moments of Hamlet with absurdist hi-jinks. For the philosophically inclined, this play has fireworks from beginning to end, and Continue Reading …
Not School Theater Group: Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead”
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is a tremendously clever, meta-fictional play that fills offstage moments of Hamlet with absurdist hijinks. Philosophically, this play has fireworks from beginning to end, and Stoppard covers a lot of ground in between: the meaning of chance, free will and determinism, identity, madness, truth, and much more. Featuring Featuring Daniel Cole Continue Reading …