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"[I] get a bit twitchy and nervous," Radcliffe said. "You
need nerves, you need that. If you don't feel that then why are
you here? That's exciting. That's fun."
Taking inspiration from "Hamlet", Radcliffe, 27, will return to
the London stage in a 50th anniversary celebratory production of
Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" later this
month.
The play is a mind-bending situation comedy in which two minor
characters, Rosencrantz (Radcliffe) and Guildenstern (Joshua
McGuire), stumble in and out of the action of Shakespeare's
iconic drama, all while having an identity crisis.
"They don't know who they are, where they are, why they're
there, what they're meant to be doing," McGuire said in an
interview with Reuters about the two characters. "They know
something is going on with Hamlet and they don't want to die."
"It is like this incredible canvas for amazing ideas to be
discussed - ideas about fate and chance and do we control our
own fate or is it all just chaos," Radcliffe said.
"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" opens at the Old Vic
Theatre in London on Feb. 25 and runs until April 29.
"It's very, very funny, we hope. Well, no, the play is very
funny, we know that, we hope we are funny."
Radcliffe's stage experience also includes singing and dancing
in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" starring
in "The Cripple of Inishmaan."
(Reporting by Sara Hemrajani in London; Editing by Melissa Fares
and Bill Trott)
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