Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead:
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This 1960s script by Tom Stoppard looks at Hamlet from an odd angle: Two minor characters try to understand the action of the play and, in entirely justified dread, how it may affect them. The setting is fluid and there is only a minimum of shifting and humping of scenery.
The show opened Sept. 19, Year 3, kicking off Town & Gown's fiftieth anniversary season. Good work by the cast and crew. In October they took it to the Georgia Theater Conference, coming away with a second place ranking and tied Best Actor awards to Derek and Mike.
In the index of pages, click any picture to see it at full size. You can loop around without returning to this page if you like.
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| The ground plan is informative if you are used to reading plans. This first page presents the Act 1 plan. | And the second shows the Act 3 plan. |
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| Here is the model I built (compare with Act 3 plan). | And a provisional calendar for the construction project. |
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| Weekend of August 16-17: not great progress, but progress | Sometimes you have to mess with the tool. |
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| You've read about the barrels, you've wondered about the barrels. Here's a barrel. | We've made a good start on the Ragedians' cart. |
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| August 31: The level is close to ready. | A couple of details. |
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| September 7: It's the little things that kill you. | This is how it looked when the show opened. |
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| All right, I'll give away one of the illusions. | Here's the other part of the ship. |
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| And so the company prepared for the Georgia Theater Conference. There are two peculiar things about this wristwatch. First, it reads 7:35 in the morning. Second . . . you'll see. | The judges docked us some points for informality before the performance began. |
| Approved Ben Teague web site |
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R & G Are Dead
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