Comparison of the dramatic artwork with its contemporary staging. Tom Stoppard : Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

The theme of my bachelor thesis is a comparison of a dramatic artwork Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard with its contemporary staging in Celetná theatre. First of all I would like to grasp theoretically the relationship between play and its staging, then I want to deal with the role of the director and also with the interpretation of drama. I will introduce Tom Stoppard, his biography with important life milestones, which are somehow related to the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. My goal is to show bits of the play, which could be interpreted divergently in the dramatic artwork and in its staging. I will go through all of the components of the original play and the staging and look for the possible differences of interpretation and their reasons. In comparison, I perceive changes in the impression of both of the works. I am going to work mainly with the dramatic artwork and its staging, because there is almost none secondary literature on this topic. My goal is to show bits of the play, which could be interpreted divergently. I demostrate the possibility of different interpretation on three examples. The first example are the gaps in the storyline, which Stoppard uses as a space for his brilliant play on words. However the staging seems to emphasize this humorous..