Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. So far, this has proved to be the most durable play to be written in the sixties. Like Shakespeare, it manages to be both an actor's and an audience's play at the same time. R & G really isn't about anything, except maybe words and appearance and reality, and some other things that would sound like the gamut of modern drama cliches if they weren't so funny onstage. It should really be taken in like a dose of laughing gas--without thinking about anything, just relaxing yourself into a body-wide grin. This production, directed by the talented Jeff Melvoin, was reviewed in yesterday's Crimson. It's not a perfect staging, but enough of Stoppard's near-perfect brilliance comes through to make it an enjoyable evening. Tonight, Friday, and Saturday night at 8 p.m. at the Loeb Main stage.
Boo Boo Raw and Offending the Audience. Asked whether the second item on his intriguing double-bill actually does "offend the audience," author Tom Wright '76 replied, "Yes, and it bores them too." See the avant garde epater les bourgeois, if you like, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb Ex. It promises to be interesting theater.
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