Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
by Tom
Stoppard
1-4 December 2004
Directed by Mark de Angeli
The basis of Stoppard’s brilliant and enduring comedy is simple: Take the most famous play in the English language (Shakespeare’s Hamlet), extract its two most insignificant
and incidental characters (Hamlet’s university friends,
Cast:-
Rosencrantz Ella Bowden
Guildenstern Tom Stiles
The Player Richard Woolnough
Alfred Toby de Angeli
Tragedians Matthew Camlin, Joe Plumb, James Collins, Judy Duffield, Alexa Bowden, Felicia de AngeliHamlet James Atkinson
Ophelia Liz Green
Claudius Roger Stiles
Gertrude Lyn Thorpe
Polonius Stewart McCreadie
Courtier John Richardson
The Blurb:
play’s continuing popularity owes much to its ability to evoke so broad a range
of emotions. One minute we’re laughing easily, the next genuinely and deeply
affected by moments of tenderness and pathos. There are few plays that work so
effortlessly at all levels from the superficial to the profound.
Rosencrantz &
Guildenstern) and retell the story from their perspective having added a liberal
sprinkling of extremely good jokes, near farcical set pieces (involving both a
pirate attack and a troupe of travelling actors of dubious morality) and some
poignant musings on all manner of topics from toenails to death.