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“Every exit is an entrance somewhere else,” Tom Stoppard writes in his Tony-award winning Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, currently playing in an excellent production at Writers’ Theatre. When the actors leave the stage where do they go? For Stoppard, the characters in Hamlet leave Shakespeare’s world and enter Stoppard's twisted universe of philosophical contemplation that left our heads spinning, in a good way.

Academics and dramaturgs are trained to worship Stoppard. The mere allure of complex ideas that can be BS’d in every which way is what keeps them employed. However, when the average theatergoer gets a taste of Stoppard’s genius served up on a beautiful silver platter in Rock ‘n’ Roll at the Goodman, he tends to get confused.