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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

  • Tom Stoppard
  • Full Length Play, Period, Comedy, 16th Century / Elizabethan
  • 14M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573013386

"Very funny, very brilliant, very chilling; it has the dust of thought about it and the particles glitter excitingly in the theatrical air."

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Period, Comedy

  • Time Period: 16th Century / Elizabethan
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Tony Award for Best Play
    Winner! NY Drama Critics Circles Award for Best Play
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play.

In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and were fate leads out two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.
REVIEWS:

"Very funny, very brilliant, very chilling; it has the dust of thought about it and the particles glitter excitingly in the theatrical air."

 The New York Times

"A stimulating, funny, imaginative comedy."

 The New York Daily News

Premiere Production: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead was first staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on August 24, 1966, by the Oxford Theatre Group. It premiered in London at the Old Vic on April 11, 1967.

Characters

  • Casting: 14M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Flexible casting, Expandable casting
  • Casting Notes: Plus 12 extras and 6 musicians.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN - a pair of schoolmates and childhood friends of Hamlet
THE PLAYER - a traveling actor
HAMLET - the Prince of Denmark
TRAGEDIANS - traveling with the Player, including Alfred
KING CLAUDIUS - the King of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and stepfather
GERTRUDE - the Queen of Denmark, and Hamlet's mother
POLONIUS - Claudius's chief adviser
OPHELIA - Polonius's daughter
HORATIO - a friend and schoolmate of Hamlet
FORTINBRAS - the nephew of the King of Norway
SOLDIERS, COURTIERS, AND MUSICIANS

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Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play.

In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and were fate leads out two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.

$24.95

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