Event Detail Information
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| Start Date: | 11/13/2008 |
| End Date: | 11/22/2008 |
| Event Time: | 7:00 PM - |
| Title: | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| Location: | Mandell Weiss Forum Studio |
| Event Category: | Performing Arts -Theatre |
| Sponsor: | UCSD Theatre and Dance |
| Open to Public: | YES |
| General Fee: | $15.00 |
| Faculty/Staff Fee: | $12.00 |
| UCSD Student Fee: | $10.00 |
| Senior Citizen Fee: | $12.00 |
| Other Fee Desc: | Parking is $2 weeknights from Theatre District vending machines |
| Contact Name: | Box Office |
| Contact Phone: | (858) 534-4574 Ext. |
| Contact Email: | promotions@ucsd.edu |
| Description: | Tom Stoppard startled and captivated audiences for
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Deadwhen he retold the story of Shakespeare's Hamlet as an absurdist-like farce, focusing on the point of view of two of the famous play's most insignificant characters. In Shakespeare's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are little more than plot devices, school chums summoned by King Claudius to probe Hamlet's bizarre behavior at court and then ordered to escort Hamlet to England (and his execution) after Hamlet mistakenly kills Polonius. Hamlet escapes Claudius's plot and engineers instead the executions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, whose deaths are reported incidentally after Hamlet returns to Denmark. In Stoppard's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern become the major characters while the Hamlet figures become plot devices, and Stoppard's wildly comic play becomes the story of two ordinary men caught up in events they could neither understand nor control. Directed by MFA student Adam Arian. LIMITED SEATING / NO LATE SEATING
Performances: Department Website: http://theatre.ucsd.edu
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