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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at Straz Center for the Performing Arts

Dates: (9/13/2023 - 10/8/2023 )

Theatre:

Straz Center for the Performing Arts

Jobsite Theater

1010 N Macinnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Tampa,FL 33602

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Before winning an Oscar as a writer of Shakespeare in Love, Tom Stoppard delivered another ingenious comic retelling involving the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon. In 1967 he dove into the world’s most famous play, Hamlet, and hilariously retold it from the point of view of two bumbling support players. The entire world is a stage, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern play their part, finding themselves unwitting pawns in history’s greatest tragedy.

A bonus for Tampa Bay area theater fans: this production uses the cast of our record-destroying production of HAMLET to give a fresh perspective on this comic masterpiece!

This contemporary classic of the theater was the winner of both the Tony and NY Drama Critics Circle awards when it premiered. Simply: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are the college chums of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and this is the story of what “really” happened behind the scenes. What were they doing there in Elsinore anyway? The Players come and go; Hamlet comes through reading words, words, words; foul deeds are done; Hamlet is sent abroad, escapes death; and in turn Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find their only true exit.



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