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Title: Where are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!
Review: Unfortunately, Olivier is a bit long in the tooth for this part, and besides Jean Simmons' Ophelia it does not wear time well. But most of all, how can a production of Hamlet omit Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They are not there, and neither are Hamlet's beautiful lines "I have of late but wherefore I know not lost of all my mirth . . . what a piece of work is man . . "These two "friends" of Hamlet brought a certain depth to him, his complaint about being played on like a flute, which helps to establish that whatever else Hamlet was, he was first of all a Prince, and next to the Crown. And his escape from death by his wits on his way to England . . without Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that just couldn't happen.Fie, fie, this version is a travesty and should be destroyed!
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