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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.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are DeadAcclaimed 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.

Contact

WSU Performing Arts gsiegel@wsu.edu
(509) 335-8522