I just posted my recommendation to see the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at Bard on the Beach here in Vancouver. Two people to whom I mentioned that I had two tickets said that they were already going with someone. Seeing movies more than once means you're seeing the same thing again (well, they are objectively the same, but they may have different affects on you on second and third viewings, etc.). Plays are different. Now this may have been the only thing I learned in a philosophy class I literally was getting zero in before asking for and getting a withdrawal based on "extenuating circumstances" (i.e. failing the class), but just like you can't step in the same river once, much less twice, you can't see the same play once. Plays are always different because the actors will always do something slightly different, make slight or not-so-slight mistakes, make slight or not-so-slight improvisations, interact with the audience differently, and so on.
That's probably enough talking about something I know little about for this night. I saw the movie before I saw the play, and will have seen the play before I read it—already ordered and on its way (if on ly there were a soundtrack...)—but if you ever get a chance to see Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead performed on the stage, leap at the opportunity.
I wanted to see this, as Haig Sutherland and Stephen Holmes were easily the best actors in the mostly mediocre Hamlet.
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