Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Tom Stoppard

How should you live your guilt? How to play head or tails and lose your life? How to become nobody?

Two secondary characters in lead roles: Ros and Guil. Even they don’t know who they are. They are part of a coincidence which they don’t understand. They find themselves in the middle of events which they are not related to, and which swallow them. A philosophical-tragic farce about two secondary shakespearean characters. A mix of comedy and life philosophy.

“I am extremely grateful that you are giving me the opportunity to send my acknowledgement and greetings to the company who performed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead and the audience, as well as to congratulate you for the UNITER award. I am sorry that I cannot accept the generous invitation from the Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre to be present for this occasion, but I do feel very honoured.

I wrote this play in 1964/65. That means that for almost half a century people have asked me what does this play truly represent and all these years I have been answering that it was truly about two noblemen from Elsinore. Still, my answer is, obviously, incomplete. Otherwise, I doubt that the play would have survived in order to be performed one more time, in a different country and different language, all these years later. There are multiple layers of reality.”

Tom Stoppard

Set designer: Adriana Grand

Music: Cári Tibor

Dramaturgy: Gyulay Eszter

Set designer assistants: Albert Alpár, Szekeres Bernadette

Cast:

Rosencrantz – Katona László m.v.

Guildenstern – Balázs Attila

The Actor – Bandi András Zsolt

Alfred – Páll Gecse Ákos

Tragediens – Bonczidai Dezső, Vass Richárd, Nagy Sándor, Tar Mónika

Prompter – Czumbil Marika