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Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Julie Thornley

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Hamlet's college chums and their story of what went on behind the scenes in Shakespeare's play. Winner of both the Tony and NY Drama Critics Circle awards.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD by Tom Stoppard
Running January 11 through 26, 2008; Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
Director, Julie Thornley

Synopsis: This comedy concerns the misadventures and musings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and focuses on their actions while Hamlet unfolds in the background. It provides a worm's eye view of a classical tragedy, and is often compared with Samuel Beckett's, Waiting for Godot: two central characters who appear almost as two halves of a single character. Major themes of the play include existentialism, free will vs. determinism, the search for value and the impossibility of certainty. As with many of Tom Stoppard's works, the play has a love for cleverness and language, which it treats as a confounding system fraught with ambiguity. It also includes some very distinctive Monty Pythonesque tweaks! "Very funny, very brilliant, very chilling; it has the dust of thought about it and the particles glitter excitingly in the theatrical air." New York Times