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audience encompassed by darkness

voices of Ros and Guil are heard, Ros question whether they've
already died

he can feel a leg, but it's dead. turned out to be Guil's leg

they're on a boar, accompanied by Hamlet

memory of messenger replaced by new charge to take Hamlet to 
England

Guil speak of freedom found on boat, but with its limitations

concludes that they're programmed, scripted by one purpose only

discover Hamlet is sleeping, play game of coins

Ros hides two coins, one in each fist

Guil trick Ros into revealing he was cheating all along

source of coins is Claudius, neither willing to say how much

letter asks for Hamlet to be executed when he reaches England

Guil complain about Ros's lack of initiative in social interactions,
Ros distraught with emptiness of everything

Guil try to counsel his friend, insist there is certainty that they 
carry a letter

letter in Guil's pocket

Ros proclaim he doesn' believe in England

Ros take king's role, Guil of Ros and Guil

critics read Shakespeare's Ros and Guil as henchmen, Stoppard
write them as victims of unlucky fate

Hamlet is the one who unseals letter

Ros suffer fro conscience, evidence of friendship from Queen

Ros embrace the fact that they're scripted, resort to philosophical
meditations on death

reseal letter, stage directions indicate nightfall and daybreak, Ros
rehearse events of the play again

Ros and Guil hear familiar music, discover Tragedians in 3 barrels

altered snatch of The Lord's Prayer

cue for lids to pop open, seems Tragedians earned king's disfavor

Hamlet appears, spit into audience

Guil makes list of Hamlet's symptoms

Pirates attack, everyone escape

leap into barrels, element borrowed from Beckett (confine parents of
Hamm in barrels in Endgame)

Hamlet disappear, pirates released for promise of future favors

uncertainty madden the oaur

play acting, Guil as king

letter compose by Hamlet as revenge against his friends

Guil enraged, stab Player with fake knife

Tragedian enact different ways of dying in Hamlet

stage relit, pile of corpses remain in pplace

Ambassador make announcement of Ros and Guil's death

Horatio provides summary of events

no exeunt, Horatio's speech overtaken by music, lights fade