Nunns Production Not Only Gets To The Plays Emotional Core, But Also Artfully Distinguishes Between The

Nunn’s production not only gets to the play’s emotional core, but also artfully distinguishes between the two leads. Samuel Barnett’s outstanding Rosencrantz strikes an often hilarious note of panic and fluster in the face of uncertainty, while Jamie Parker’s Guildenstern strives to maintain an air of Socratic stoicism. Chris Andrew Mellon, stepping in at short notice for Tim Curry, also does an excellent job as the Player, who is a mixture of seedy pimp and robust rhetorician. Yet what finally moves one is the way the two heroes, as the darkness closes in, cling to each other for comfort. Exactly as in Beckett.

(Full review in The Guardian)

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“Eternity is not later, or in any unfindable place. Roses, roses, roses, roses.”

— Mary Oliver, from Devotions: The Selected Poems; “From The Book Of Time,”

Jamie Parker and Sam Barnett in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead