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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are

The story opens with the two title characters flipping a coin, only for it to defy the laws of probability and land on heads every time. Guildenstern then remarks they this means they have wandered into a place that defies random chance and conventional time-tables you would find in Real Life. This establishes the metatextual nature of the story, the play a dramatization of Hamlet that draws attention to the artificiality of theatre so indicative of Absurdist media.

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