Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Written By Tom Stoppard
Directed By Mel Christian

June 14-30, 2018
Thursday-Saturday Nights at 8pm

Performed at 5th Avenue Antiques

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & 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 where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.

Featuring: Nick Crawford, Jonathan Sweatt, Bates Redwine, Seth Burgess, Blake Tanner, Josh Roberts, Lesli Johnson, and Mark Nelson

BROADWAY WORLD REVIEW
“Crawford and Sweatt both bring an impressive comedic chemistry and energetic delivery that propels the play. ”
— David Edward Perry

Tom Stoppard’s plays include Leopoldstadt (2023 Tony Award® for Best Play; 2020 Oliver Award for Best New Play), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1968 Tony Award® for Best Play), The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, New Found Land, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (a play for actors and orchestra written with André Previn), Night and Day, The Real Thing (1984 Tony Award® for Best Play), Hapgood, Arcadia (1993 Olivier Award for Best New Play), Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, The Coast of Utopia (2007 Tony Award® for Best Play), Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Hard Problem. His radio plays include Albert’s Bridge, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank, and most recently, his dramatic imagining of Pink Floyd’s Darkside of the Moon, Darkside. Stoppard is also a writer for film and television and received the Academy Award for the screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.