Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Two pub philosophers find themselves caught up in an existentialist Hamlet loop, where perhaps death is the only escape…

Sometimes referred to as “Hamlet in the wings”, Tom Stoppard’s 1967 masterpiece takes a comedic worm’s-eye view of the events in Elsinore Castle.

The two pub philosophers, childhood friends of Hamlet, are recruited as spies for Claudius to find out why Hamlet is mad. Except they have no real memory of him, are not even sure of their own identities and have also discovered that the laws of probability have inexplicably been suspended…

Age guidance: 12+
Running time: 2hr 30