Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are alive... at the Swirnow
The first Barnstormer production of the year, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, was extremely well-received by a packed house at the Swirnow Theater. The two-and-a-half hour work, directed by Michael Pokorny and produced by Brad Fuller and Sara Marten, is a sympathetic look at the two unenviable characters in Hamlet, whose life experience consists of genesis, demise and little else. Existing entirely within the vague parameters outlined in Shakespeare's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern extensively explore the laws of probability and fate that require them to be reactive participants in their own reality.