Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead Page #2

for others patronage,

they are two sides

of the same coin...

or being as there are so many

of us the same side of two coins.

It was Iuck, then?

/Or fate.

Yours or ours?

/It couId hardIy be one

without the other.

Fate then.

/You said, caught up in the action?

I did! I did!

You're quicker than your friend.

For a handfuI of coins

I happen to have...

a private and uncut performance

of the Rape of the Sabine Women...

or rather woman...

or rather AIfred...

and for eight you can participate.

It couId have been.

It didn't have to be obscene.

I was prepared.

But it's this, is it?

No enigma... no dignity,

nothing cIassicaI or poetic...

onIy this...

a comic pornographer

and a rabbIe of prostitutes.

You shouId have caught

us in better times.

We were purists then.

Excuse me!

AIfred.

You're not, ah,

excIusiveIy pIayers, then?

We're incIusiveIy pIayers, sir.

I had no idea--

/No.

I mean I've heard of--,

but I've never actuaIIy seen...

I mean, what exactIy do you do?

We keep to our usuaI stuff,

more or Iess, onIy inside out.

We do on stage the things

that are supposed to happen off.

Which is a kind of integrity,

if you Iook on every exit

as an entrance somewhere eIse.

Wait a minute.

What wiII you do for that?

Do you know any good pIays?

PIays? Oh, yes.

One of the Greeks, perhaps?

You're famiIar with the tragedies

of Antiquity, are you?

The great homicidaI cIassics?

'Maidens aspiring to Godheads',

or vice versa? That's

your kind of thing, is it?

I can't say it is, reaIIy.

Eh we're more of the Iove,

bIood and rhetoric schooI.

WeII, we can do you bIood

and Iove without the rhetoric

without the Iove...

and we can do you aII three

concurrent or consecutive.

But we can't do you Iove

and rhetoric without the bIood.

BIood is compuIsory.

They're aII bIood, you see.

Is that what peopIe want?

/It's what we do.

WouId you Iike a bet?

DoubIe or nothing.

Heads.

Heads.

DoubIe or... nothing.

Come on.

I say that was Iucky.

It was ''taiIs''.

WeIcome! Dear Rosencrantz

and GuiIdenstern.

Moreover that we much did

Iong to see you.

The need we have to use

you did provoke our hasty sending.

Something have you heard

of HamIet's transformation,

so caII it,

sith nor th' exterior

nor the inward men

resembIes that it was.

What it shouId be,

more than his father's death,

that thus hath put him

so much from th' understanding

of himseIf.

I cannot dream of.

I entreat you both

that, being of so young days

brought up with him.

And sith so neighbored

to his youth and haviour,

that you vouch-safe your rest

here in our court some IittIe time

so by your companies

to draw him on to pIeasures

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