Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

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Summary: A great absurdist piece of drama
Review: We are producing this show in WI this summer, actually opening on Thursday Aug 12 in Fort Atkinson. Working on this play, I have a great respect for Tom Stoppard, this is a masterpiece!

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Summary: A confusing but awesome play
Review: "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" is truly strange, but wonderful. Once you get past the first twenty pages and figure out what's going on (hint: get a summary from one of the webpages devoted to this book), it's hilarious, and chilling (thanks, NY Times) at the same time, from the question game to the end speech about death. It also works really well in Forensics- this year in my eighth grade Forensics club my friend and I did the Question Game, and it was a big hit. Stick with it and you'll love it!

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Summary: Witty yet repetitive
Review: R & G is a book that challenges one view of the average novel. What a creative idea to rewrite an extremely well known play through the eyes of such minute characters. The idea is wonderful; the plot is insightful, especially if you've read Hamlet. While the humor is Leslie Neilson style ridiculous, some of it is quite redundant. If you are easily annoyed, maybe you should pass this one up! If you are a garganteous literary buff, however, this is a must read!

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Summary: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is soooooooo cool.
Review: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is the phatest book on da' block. The battle between free will and determinism is as good as the one between L.L. Cool J and Canibus. I think, like, everyone should read this book. It's da' bomb!

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Summary: brilliant
Review: one of the best peices of literature i've read. never before have i seen such a combination of rhetoric, theory, and brilliant humor fashoned together in such a way...genius

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Summary: "Don't clap too loudly; it's a very old world."
Review: Well, I'd clap louder, but I'm worried. A fantastic play, full of witty insights and clever interpretation. I have a copy of this book, filled to the brim with notes, papers, and comments. Each time I read it, there's more. It provides a grand new world each time I pick it up. Stoppard is amazing.

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Summary: Creatively crafted with an existential twist, brilliant.
Review: Stoppard's R&G is an excellent work crafted out of sheer creative genius. Evidence of this is the fact that other than an expertise in crafting a philosophy sometimes existential in nature, anyone could have written this. Anyone who has read Hamlet could have come up with this play, only Stoppard has beaten us all to it. Hilarious and often striking a sensitive nerve in the reader's mind, this play is as much about two insignificant characters in Hamlet as it is about human beings and their purpose for being on whatever boat they're on in life. Well done.

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Summary: Funnier than Godot, though not as good
Review: Anyone who loves Samuel Beckett's take on absurdity and negative emotion mixed with sharp humor should read this. Stoppard has obviously been influenced not just a bit by Beckett's dramas, but that doesn't diminish the fact that this is still one of the most original modern plays, definitely on par with Beckett or whomever you think it is necessary to be on par with. The brilliance of the structure comes of course from the hilarious take on what happened in Hamlet, but the best parts are when R and G are on stage by themselves, which is a rather large majority of the play.

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Summary: WITTY, CLEVER, AND BRUTALLY FUNNY
Review: This was a great play--the characterization was so perfectly clear, and the word play is brilliantly written! The scheming minds of Ros and Guil touch upon many an obscure school of thought, and you'll cry with laughter as Ros nonchalantly discovers such things as water displacement, etc. The film also adapts it very nicely. This was a winner...it was at times brutally funny, and very witty and clever. A must -read!

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Summary: Heads.
Review: This adaptation of Hamlet was both amusing and chilling. Stoppard has done an excellent job in taking two seemingly inferior characters from Shakespeare and drawing their meager lives into odd proportion. Of course, the hidden message he tries to convey is chilling, yet masterfully done. A must read for all fans of British comedy, "Waiting for Godot," and psychology alike.