Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
From: Friday, 20th May 2011
To: Saturday, 11 June 2011
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Synopsis
Intelligent comedy based on two minor characters from Hamlet. The play turns the spotlight onto the apparently inconsequential experiences of the two minor courtiers in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They are by turn comic, tragic and philosophical as they try to make sense of the pointless and arbitrary nature of their own existence.
Our Review:
1 June 2011
We all know the American expression, “Will it play in Peoria?” maybe it's time for an English equivalent, “How will it go down in Chichester?”
I'd have thought that Tom Stoppard was an establishment figure these days but I was buttonholed at the interval by a theatregoer incensed that the theatre was showing such obscure nonsense maybe that establishment is smaller than I thought.
It's true that Stoppard's witty and dazzling play isn't for everyone but the central idea, looking at two minor characters from Hamlet and their interaction with the characters from Elsinore is still an intriguing one and when mixed with Stoppard's wordplay and reflections on ontology, probability, determinism and mortality, it makes for a heady concoction.
I expect that large numbers of the audience were there to see Tim Curry play the Player King but they would have been disappointed as he has pulled out of the role. His place is ably taken by [...
Latest User Review
Georgia Campling - 11 June 2011:
Brilliant rendition,the pace and rapport between Barnett and Parker is wonderful -I've seen this play many times and it still gives me warm laughs -Stoppard's word-plays and absurdist view of the human condition is still as thought provoking as ever - go see it!...
Cast
Samuel Barnett (Rosencrantz)
Michael Benz (Horatio)
Tomm Coles (Courtier 2)
Chris Andrew Mellon (The Player)
Trevor Allan Davies (Player 7/Lucianus/Claudius-poisoner)
Zac Fox (Player 5)
Fiona Gillies (Gertrude)
Tom Golding (Fortinbras)
Charlie Hamblett (Alfred)
Jack Hawkins (Hamlet)
Elisabeth Hopper (Courtier 4)
Andrew Jarvis (Polonius/Ambassador)
Greg Last (Player 6)
Jody Elen Machin (Courtier 3)
Chris Andrew Mellon (Player King)
James Northcote (Player 4)
Stephen Pallister (Courtier 1)
Jamie Parker (Guildenstern)
Katherine Press (Ophelia)
James Simmons (Claudius)
Keith Thompson (musician)
Creative
Tom Stoppard (Author)
Conquest Furniture (Corporate Sponsor)
Chichester Festival Theatre (Producer)
Trevor Nunn (Director)
Simon Higlett (Design)
Tim Mitchell (Lighting)
Paul Groothuis (Sound)
Steven Edis (Music)
Fotini Dimou (Costume)
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