Making the world our stage - staging Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
"Guildenstern: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
Rosencrantz: Or just as mad.
Guildenstern: Or just as mad.
Rosencrantz: And he does both.
Guildenstern: So there you are.
Rosencrantz: Stark raving sane."
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," c'est la rencontre étincelante entre William Shakespeare et Samuel Beckett sous la plume amusée de Tom Stoppard, un amalgame inattendu entre deux univers théâtraux des plus opposés - le classique et le contemporain - amenés à discuter, sur le mode tragi-comique, de l'absurde splendeur de l'existence humaine.
Directed by Victoria Baumgartner & Nadia Fries
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Tried to post a comment but defeated by the technology. It said I was happy you were putting on this funny and intelligent play because for me it represents a kind of life-circle. I gave my 'leçon d'épreuve' on this play too many years ago to count, and I just gave my last class ever in Lausanne. When I met Tom Stoppard at a London production of Hamlet in which his son was the star, I told him how grateful I was to him, since his play has assured me a decent income for these many years. He replied that it was good for both of us that he no longer needed to take a cut. Enjoy the performance (or 'break a leg', as we say in English: the French equivalent is unprintable). I look forward to it.
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