Ros: What are you playing at?
Guil: Words, words.
They're all we have to go on.
Sydney Theatre Company and Commonwealth Bank presents
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE
DEAD
By Tom Stoppard
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, pretty much everyone ends up
dead - including the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
In Tom Stoppard's evergreen comic masterpiece, the hapless
pair's last days are chronicled; days largely spent trying to make
sense of their interactions with other characters as the epic
Hamlet unspools just off stage. In the hands of director
Simon Phillips, the wit and playfulness of Stoppard's writing will
be front and centre.
Simon will direct a truly fabulous cast led in the title roles
by superstar comedian/musician Tim Minchin and the irrepressible
Toby Schmitz, most recently with us in another Stoppard classic,
Travesties, in 2009. To realise this great playwright's
brilliant vision, Phillips will reunite with sensational designer
Gabriela Tylesova, with whom he has collaborated many times,
including on the visually spectacular musical Love Never
Dies.
It's absurdist, it's existential, it's meta-theatrical - but
above all, it's Stoppard, Phillips, Schmitz and Minchin.
Duration: 3hrs (including interval)
Times: Mon 6.30pm; Tues - Sat 7.30pm; Wed
1pm; Sat 1.30pm; 28 Aug & 4 Sep 12.15 (Schools
Day)
Previews 6 - 9 August
Season 10 August - 7 September
Mon 6.30pm; Tues - Sat 7.30pm; Wed 1pm; Sat 1.30pm; 28 Aug
& 4 Sep 12.15 (Schools Day)
Single ticket prices
Saturday evening $105
Adult $99
Seniors cardholder $85
Concession $75
Preview $80
Under 30 $55
Transaction fees may apply
Season Ticket prices
Saturday evening $90
Adult $85
Seniors cardholder $75
Concession $65
Preview $70
Under 30 $50
Pre-season Briefing
Monday 29 July 6.15pm
At the Wharf
Audi Night with the Actors
Monday 19 August 6.30pm
Audio described performance and 11.30am tactile
tour
Saturday 24 August 1.30pm
Captioned performance
Friday 6 September 7.30pm
Schools Days
Wednesday 28 August 12.15pm
Wednesday 4 September 12.15pm
Pier Group Lunch
Monday 1 July 12pm
Director Simon Phillips
Designer Gabriela Tylesova
Lighting Designer Nick Schlieper
Composer/Musical Director: Alan John
Sound Designer Steve Francis
Assistant Director Sarah Giles
With
Paul Cutlan, John Gaden, George Kemp, Angus
King, Ewen Leslie, Tim Minchin, Nicholas
Papademetriou, Toby Schmitz, Berynn Schwerdt, Chris
Stollery, Aaron Tsindos, Adele Querol, Tim Walter
Photo James Penlidis and Ellis Parrinder