she rosencrantz on my guildenstern until the both of us are dead
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this casting is so insanely powerful
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the experience of tragedy in plays specifically because ‘maybe it will end differently this time’ feels possible. This isn’t pre-recorded. This isn’t set down in time and film. This is live, this is now, these people are real and maybe this time when they open the letter it won’t say ‘kill the messenger’. Maybe this time they get to live
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Possible settings for rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead:
An empty theatre/stage (classic)
A set previously used for or evocative of Hamlet
Backstage of a theatre
An elevator
Any “liminal” space (airport, train station, hallway)
A dennys parking lot (ros & guil must be stoners)
Tom stoppard’s actual house
Random warehouse
A dive bar (bartender is either ros and guil themselves OR Shakespeare OR Tom Stoppard)
House of mirrors
The set of waiting for Godot
A graveyard
IKEA
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Guy who refers to Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and Updike's "Gertrude and Claudius" as "The Hamlet Extended Universe"
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i love you time loops i love you inescapable purgatories i love you characters who were doomed from the start but try to escape anyway i love you inevitable fates i love you characters who choose to care about others when it would be easier not to
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so rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead functions on the idea of these guys not having a choice right? and even if they choose to just sit down and not move anywhere they'll probably be moved to where they need to be regardless? and the only choices they have are how they choose to interpret their world, with rosencrantz needing to find and test the boundaries of it and cement their place in it and guildenstern trusting the narrative without question? and guildenstern refuses to allow either of them to decide who they are? and they are so interconnected with each other that they are simply inseparable and indistinguishable, even to themselves? and they cannot define themselves without the other and become lost when they lose each other? and their choice (or lack thereof) in identity (or lack thereof) is mutually decided (or determined) to be in their inherent love and trust and unity in and with each other? and you expect me to be normal about that?
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