20:45, Tue 29th July 2025 at Chichester Festival Theatre
21:00, Wed 30th July 2025 at Liverpool Empire Theatre
21:00, Fri 1st August 2025 at Almeida Theatre
21:00, Sat 2nd August 2025 at Almeida Theatre
16:30, Mon 4th August 2025 at Random Venue 100
20:15, Tue 5th August 2025 at Royal Court Theatre
20:45, Thu 7th August 2025 at Globe Theatre, London
21:00, Fri 8th August 2025 at Sadler's Wells Theatre
21:00, Sat 9th August 2025 at Sadler's Wells Theatre
Summer Vacation

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The action of Stoppard's play takes place mainly "in the wings" of Shakespeare's, with brief appearances of major characters from Hamlet who enact fragments of the original's scenes. Between these episodes the two protagonists voice their confusion at the progress of events of which—occurring onstage without them in Hamlet—they have no direct knowledge.