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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead " review by Michael Billington

Chichester Festival TheatreTrevor Nunn's fine production of Tom Stoppard's 1966 play begins with a striking image: the two heroes seen against the stark background of a leafless tree. The Beckettian echoes are deliberate since, for all its nods to Eliot, Kafka and Wilde, the play often seems like a speculation on what would happen if Vladimir and Estragon turned up in Elsinore.Like Beckett, Stoppard shows two figures…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM on March 6, 2017

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