R&GAD may have been the first high school play I saw, and the two leads were played by girls, which might have been transgressive way back then.
I don’t know how it could be perceived as deplorable, unless you somehow mistook Hamlet’s intentions for Tom Stoppard’s. They even play Questions!
In hindsight, I wonder if it influenced my sequel to Waiting For Godot in which due to a miscommunication Godot waits around for Vladimir and Estragon, who of course never show up.
Man, I wish I still had a copy of that.