Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
About the event
By Tom Stoppard.
Directed by Benjamin Gonzales.
Performances are Fridays and Saturdays, April 4, 5, 11, and 12, at 7:30 p.m. nightly with additional 2:00 p.m. Saturday matinees April 5 and 12.
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, this 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 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.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1967-68 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.
“Very funny, very brilliant, very chilling; it has the dust of thought about it, and the particles glitter excitingly in the theatrical air.” —The New York Times
RESERVED SEATING
Adults: $10
Seniors: $9
WSU Students: $8
Tickets may be purchased at all TicketsWest outlets, including online at TicketsWest.com, by phone at 800-325-SEAT (7328), or at the Beasley Coliseum ticket office (open M–F 10-2). Additional fees apply to online and phone orders. Same-day tickets are available at the Daggy Hall box office beginning 2 hours before each performance. WSU Alumni Association members receive a discount off regular adult ticket prices.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.