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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

written by Tom Stoppard
Starring Vermont Stage Senior Company
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directed by Education program creative team: 
​Amy Riley, Danielle Sertz, Gina Fearn, and Ryan Addario​

produced December 20-22, 2019
Friday & Saturday Evenings at 7:30pm
Saturday & Sunday Matinees at 2pm
Purchase tickets by phone
Please call 802-862-1497 during regular business hours (M-F, 10am-5pm).
Purchase tickets in person at our office
Please come to our administrative office during regular business hours (M-F, 10am-5pm). Our office is located at 110 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401. We're on the ground floor by the elevator.
Purchase tickets at the door
Please go directly to the theatre, located at 60 Lake Street, 3rd floor, Burlington, VT 05401. The onsite Box Office opens an hour prior to showtime.
Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning Best Play is the brilliant tale of Hamlet as told through the bewildered view of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters in the Shakespeare play. Reality and illusion are woven together as all the characters question big ideas such as fate versus free will, the nature of existence and identity and the purpose of life. This classic tragicomedy has a beautiful new twist as our Senior Company unravels this innovative and timeless story.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is appropriate for ages 10 & up. Running Time: 2 hours with one intermission.


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Main Street Landing Black Box Theatre
60 Lake Street, 3rd Floor, Burlington, VT 05401

The Lobby, Box Office, and Bar opens an hour prior to showtime. The performance space doors will open a half hour prior to showtime. All performances are General Admission seating.

Learn more about nearby parking and restaurants.

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A masterpiece, not unlike Shakespeare’s plays; it’s artfully, imaginatively written, multidimensional, and hilarious.
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In making Rosencrantz and Guildenstern… Stoppard mixed the poetic melodrama of Shakespeare with the doom-laden minimalism of Samuel Beckett and topped it with the slapstick of the Marx Brothers.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead


written by Tom Stoppard
Starring Vermont Stage Senior Company
​

directed by Education program creative team: 
​Amy Riley, Danielle Sertz, Gina Fearn, and Ryan Addario​

produced December 20-22, 2019
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm
Saturday & Sunday Matinees at 2pm
Purchase tickets by phone
Please call 802-862-1497 during regular business hours (M-F, 10am-5pm).
Purchase tickets in person at our office
Please come to our administrative office during regular business hours (M-F, 10am-5pm). Our office is located at 110 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401. We're on the ground floor by the elevator.
Purchase tickets at the door
Please go directly to the theatre, located at 60 Lake Street, 3rd floor, Burlington, VT 05401. The onsite Box Office opens an hour prior to showtime.

All performances take place at 

Main Street Landing 
​Performing Arts Center
Black Box Theatre
60 Lake Street, 3rd Floor
Burlington, VT 05401

The Lobby, Box Office, and Bar opens an hour prior to showtime. The performance space doors will open a half hour prior to showtime. All performances are General Admission seating.

Learn more about nearby parking and restaurants.
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Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning Best Play is the brilliant tale of Hamlet as told through the bewildered view of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters in the Shakespeare play. Reality and illusion are woven together as all the characters question big ideas such as fate versus free will, the nature of existence and identity and the purpose of life. This classic tragicomedy has a beautiful new twist as our Senior Company unravels this innovative and timeless story.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is appropriate for ages 10 & up. Running Time: 2 hours with one intermission.
“A masterpiece, not unlike Shakespeare’s plays; it’s artfully, imaginatively written, multidimensional, and hilarious.”
– New Yorker
“In making Rosencrantz and Guildenstern… Stoppard mixed the poetic melodrama of Shakespeare with the doom-laden minimalism of Samuel Beckett and topped it with the slapstick of the Marx Brothers.” – Rolling Stone

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