olivier

Watched Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet a couple of nights ago.

One play I adored in high school and college (and should reread) is Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (an excellent summary with links is here), so I found it a bit disconcerting when I figured out that my boys R&G wouldn’t be in the Olivier version. (I should mention that I was a lady-in-waiting for a production of R&G during my first semester in college. I know this play quite well; also, the Tom Stoppard movie? It sucked. See it onstage, not onscreen.)

After all, one of the many things Hamlet concerns is betrayal.

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