March 2008 – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

  • Playwright – Tom Stoppard
  • Location – Harrogate Studio Theatre
  • Director – Chris Rawson

Cast

  • Rozencrantz – Dermot Hill
  • Guildenstern – Katherine Morse
  • Player – Paul Dunstan
  • Hamlet – Arthur Timmins
  • Ophelia – Kate Antram
  • Claudius – Derek Newton
  • Gertrude – Jenny Antram
  • Polonius – Frank Moorby
  • Player – Paul Dunstan
  • Player (Alfred) – Sophie Lockhart
  • Player (King) – John Wilford
  • Players – Margeurite Moss, Ashley Timson, Richard Naylor

Tom Stoppard’s humorous, absurdist, tragic and existentialist play enjoys the misadventures of two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are friends of the Prince and their oddball doings unravel while the events of Hamlet unfold in the background.