March 2008 – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Play Name: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Playwright: Tom Stoppard
Performance Start Date: Tuesday, 4 March, 2008
Performance End Date: Saturday, 8 March, 2008
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

Synopsis

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.

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