Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

This programme is from 1970. The play was Tom Stoppard’s first big hit. As a student in Birmingham I used to visit the Rep quite often. This was the old building in Station Street, not the current building next to the library. I remember the seats in the circle had an incredibly steep rake. Sitting there, you felt like a goat clinging to the side of a mountain. The programme cost 1/- ( 5p ). Most modern programmes are about one hundred times more expensive, although admittedly the quality is better today. It is interesting to see that the actors’ biographies refer to them as ‘Mr Gostelow’ and ‘Mr Drinkel’. This seems like the formality of an earlier age.