A miniature stage with plum curtains and a silver ribbon in a spotlight.

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead • 1967

Tom Stoppard

We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This speaker says the players show on stage what theatre normally keeps offstage. He calls that a kind of integrity, though only under one playful condition. It works if every exit is seen as an entrance somewhere else.

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