Seattle Public Theater finds meaning in Stoppard’s Beckett-like play

Remember Rosencrantz? From Hamlet? How about Guildenstern? In Shakespeare’s play,

Games of chance sustain Rosencrantz (Alyssa Keene, left) and Guildenstern (Angela Di Marco, right) in Seattle Public Theater's gender-bending production of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead." Photo by Paul Bestock.

these childhood friends of the titular character are commissioned to spy on the Prince of Denmark in order to find out what’s ailing him, then escort him by sea to England where he is scheduled to be killed. But then the pirates attack …

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