The premiere of the play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" took place in the Penza city center "Meyerhold’s House" Automatic translate

PENZA. The “Dr. Dapertutto Theater”, which is part of the MEC “Meyerhold’s House”, presented to the public on February 27 a new work of the troupe - a play based on the play, which is a paraphrase of “Hamlet” - “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead”. The author of this play, where the main characters are minor characters of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is Tom Stoppard, a British playwright.

The play was written in 1966 and, barely presented to readers, immediately received feedback from them. As soon as this play was not called - some considered it “insane”, others found the content of the work witty, and some honored its epithet with “paradoxical”. Opinions about the play were diverse, but the author received a substantial amount of literary awards for his tragicomedy.

The director of the play is the artistic director of the Center for Contemporary Art “Meyerhold’s House” Natalia Kugel believes that the play, although it was written 50 years ago, remains relevant. After all, it is about life and death, predetermined fate and freedom of choice.

In the play staged in the “Doctor Dapertutto Theater”, the main theme is the life of a “little man” turning into a puppet, whose fate depends entirely on his masters. In modern society, this problem is confidently becoming the main one. Despite the many centuries that separate today from the era of the characters in the play, the time is now no less difficult, no less tragic. Therefore, the questions posed by the author of the play, he turns to our contemporaries.

Choosing friends of the prince as the main characters of his play, about whom absolutely nothing is known, Stoppard as if asks the great playwright what he wanted to say with their appearance in Hamlet? After all, they do not even have a biography. The author also does not find a direct answer, giving the right to do this to the audience.

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