Comedy: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Event Date: 10/19/2012
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Location: AUD O'Malley Theatre (7th floor)

Tickets are still available for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the comedy by Tom Stoppard. Call the box office at 312-341-3831 for reservations. Presented by the Theatre Conservatory in the O'Malley Theatre, performances are Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19 - 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 21 at 2 p.m.

Director Jaclynn Jutting, casts an all-female gender-bending ensemble in this intellectual, existentialist romp featuring live music and a philosophical beat, as two friends attempt to navigate a world beyond their own understanding.

Stoppard’s Tony Award–winning play presents Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet from the point of view of two marginalized characters: Hamlet’s childhood friends. In the shadow of Hamlet’s greatest monologues, these two characters attempt to answer the riddles of life and art through games of chance, verbal wordplay and an encounter with a traveling troupe of Elizabethan players.