Several characters in this play try to salvage their first memory but can only recall a messenger on a saddle at dawn who called their names while banging shutters.
Several characters in this play try to salvage their first memory but can only recall a messenger on a saddle at dawn who called their names while banging shutters. This play's final act opens in darkness amidst "soft sea sounds" as the main characters discover they are on a boat. One of its characters, Alfred, is forced to star in a performance of "The Rape of the Sabine Women", put on by an acting troupe who later perform The (*) Murder of Gonzago. Rhetoricals and repetitions are counted as fouls in a "game of questions" played in its first act, which begins with its title characters flipping a coin that has come up heads 92 straight times. For 10 points, name this play about two minor Hamlet characters, written by Tom Stoppard.
Several characters in this play try to salvage their first memory but can only recall a messenger on a saddle at dawn who called their names while banging shutters.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead