Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadSydney Theatre Company 10th August to 14th September 2013

Sydney Theatre CompanyEstablished in 1978Artistic Director Andrew Uptonan eclectic program of Australian plays, interpretations of the classic repertoire and the best of new international writingRos: What are you playing at?Guil: Words, words.Theyre all we have to go on.Musician: Paul CutlanPolonius: John CadenAlfred: George KempPlayer/Laertes: Angus KingThe Player: Ewen LeslieRosencrantz: Tim MinchinGertrude: Heather MitchellPlayer/King in Dumbshow/Ambassador: Nicholas PapademetriouOphelia: Adele QuerolGuildenstern: Toby SchmitzPlayer/Murderer: Berynn SchwerdtClaudius: Christopher Stollery

Player/Horatio: Aaron TsindosHamlet: Tim WalterDirector: Simon PhillipsDesigner: Gabriela TylesovaLighting Designer: Nick SchlieperMusical Director & Composer: Alan JohnSound Designer: Steve FrancisAssistant Director: Sarah GilesVoice and Text Coach: Charmian GradwellProduction Manager: Simon KharmaraStage Manager: Minka Stevens

Cast and Crew

at the heart of this play is an contemplation of the essence of what it is to be human: fearful, small, desperate for significance and guidance. And inevitably mortal.

''You're laughing at them, then suddenly these characters hit moments of real profundity. But they never stay there for long because Stoppard always has another joke coming along.'' man is inhabiting a universe with which he is out of key. Its meaning is indecipherable and his place within it is without purpose. He is bewildered, troubled and obscurely threatened.

Absurdist Theatre

Existentialism and Insignificance''These characters, who are just thrust into the world of a play, have no history beforehand, no history after. They have no real idea who they are. They need other characters to tell them. They exist only to be in that play. It's Stoppard asking: how do you fill that time between the point at which you are born and the point at which you die?''MetaTheatre

Sets and Scenography

Costuming

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