Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Lyttelton - National Theatre
- 5/5 based on 2 reviews
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead description
About the Show
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have perhaps six minutes on stage in Hamlet and are dispatched to their deaths in a single line. Tom Stoppard's play gives them everything in between: the corridors, the waiting, the coin that keeps landing heads, the travelling players who seem to know how this ends. Elsinore's plot passes through in fragments while the two of them try to work out what they are for.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead made Stoppard's name. It was first seen on the Edinburgh Fringe in 1966, staged by the National Theatre the following year and won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1968. This production closes the year in the Lyttelton Theatre.
Cast and Creatives
The play is by Tom Stoppard, whose Arcadia, The Invention of Love and Leopoldstadt have also been major London productions and who won an Academy Award for the screenplay of Shakespeare in Love. The director is Robert Hastie, Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre, who ran Sheffield Theatres and directed Standing at the Sky's Edge.
Mawaan Rizwan, the BAFTA-winning creator and star of Juice, plays Rosencrantz, with George Fouracres of Saturday Night Live UK, who has also played Hamlet at Shakespeare's Globe, as Guildenstern.
Why You Should Watch It
A modern classic about being a minor character in your own life, with two very funny actors in the parts. Book tickets to see it at the National Theatre.
