12.02.2013

Rosencrantz
Actor! What do you know about death?
The mechanics of cheap melodrama! 

Guildenstern
Cheap melodrama.

Rosencrantz
You can't do death!
Actor 
On the contrary,
it's what we do best.
We have to exploit
whatever talent is given to us
and our talent is for dying.
We can die heroically, comically, 
ironically, sadly, suddenly, slowly
disgustingly, charmingly 
or from a great height.
Audiences know what to expect,
and that is all they are 
prepared to believe in.
- Tom Stoppard (1966)