PRODUCTIONS

ROSENCRANTZ
AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
Tom Stoppard

Tue 17 - Sat 21 April 2012 at 7.30pm

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Sheep Street, Northampton Map

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Adults: £8.00
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PREVIEW
Rob Kendall, director

Have you ever wondered why Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ever went to be with Hamlet at Elsinore just because they were ‘sent for’? Well Tom Stoppard did and this play was the result.

In fact it is much more than that and ‘chance’ and the gamble of life, or death, become very much the subtext of this play. R&G are sometimes confused, just as those around them are confused by the behaviour of Hamlet, however all is revealed in the end, or is it?

Stoppard’s play has Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as the main protagonists and the Shakespeare Hamlet almost as subplot. (If you’ve ever fancied playing Hamlet. you’re ok here as there aren’t so many lines). As the title suggests, the play is about the minor characters and the chances of life that bring them to where they are and this is brought to life by word play, humour and some of the actual William Shakespeare text.