ScotsGay Magazine

*****

Do you sometimes hate being among the spectators and not a part of the action? Dan Jennings as Rosencrantz loathes it, and sits in the audience and tells us, - one of the many comic tricks of this 40th anniversary production of this wonderful play that always seems to me like Hamlet rewritten by the author of Tristram Shandy. Dan together with Tom Oakley as Guildenstern are a brilliant comic duo making excellent use of all their opportunities. As director, Ben Waring has drawn superb performances from both of them. The audience laughed loudly and often -which doesn't always happen with this play - though the darker moments were given their due. After this, I went around Edinburgh smiling all afternoon. I could be tempted to return!

Tony Challis

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