Billy Boyd & Dominic Monaghan in ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD EXTENDED
For Immediate Release
Media Contact: John Karastamatis, Sue Toth, Erin Nantais
ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD will now play March 5 to 31, 2024 at the CAA Theatre.
Regardless of the title of Tom Stoppard’s brilliant debut play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern will live to play another week of performances in Toronto.
Due to extraordinary demand, this new production of ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, starring beloved hobbits Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan of the Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, is extended for one more week.
About ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
The story of Hamlet is reimagined in this brilliant comedy that thrusts two minor characters to the forefront.
Prince Hamlet has been exiled to England by his treacherous uncle Claudius, who has murdered his brother (Hamlet's father) and crowned himself king. On his way to England in the company of his school friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet discovers they are carrying a letter from King Claudius that commands that Hamlet be put to death when he arrives in England. Hamlet rewrites the letter to command that instead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern be put to death. He then escapes back to Denmark.
The bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are trapped in this absurdist universe where their lives are left to chance with the flip of a coin.
Can our hapless protagonists triumph in a battle of wits, escape their fate, and make sense of a senseless world?
THE CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
This new production will originate at The Neptune Theatre in Halifax, where it will play January 30 to February 25, 2024. It will then travel to Toronto.
Directed by Neptune Theatre’s artistic director Jeremy Webb, ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD features Billy Boyd as Guildenstern and Dominic Monaghan as Rosencrantz. The production will also star some of Canada’s most acclaimed actors: (Michael Blake (The Player), Walter Borden (Polonius), Pasha Ebrahimi (Hamlet), Raquel Duffy(Tragedian, Gertrude), Drew Douris-O'Hara (Tragedian, Alfred), Jacob Sampson (Tragedian, Laertes), Mallory Amirault (Tragedian, Ambassador), Santiago Guzman (Tragedian, Horatio), Helen Belay (Tragedian, Ophelia), Jonathan Ellul (Tragedian, Claudius), and Erin Tancock (Tragedian, Fortinbras).
The creative team is comprised of Kaelen MacDonald (Costume Designer), Leigh Ann Vardy (Lighting Designer), Andrew Cull (Set Designer), Angela Gasparetto (Movement Director), Deanna Choi (Sound Designer & Original Music Composer), Karen Bassett (Fight Director), Christine Oakey (Stage Manager), Anna Spencer (Assistant Stage Manager), and Rachel Dawn Woods (Assistant Stage Manager).