SURPRISING twists on Shakespeare's famous play Hamlet are revealed in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead, at Malvern's Festival Theatre from Tuesday.
Presented by the award-winning English Touring Theatre, this major revival of Stoppard's debut play, written in the late 1960s, which launched his amazingly successful career is described as "a master class on illusion and reality with his legendary panache and dazzling wit,"
Based on two minor characters from Hamlet, the play thrusts Rosencrantz and Guildenstern into an unwanted spotlight.
A spokesman commented: "Their confusion, fear, uncertainly, survival and death are at the centre of the action - or are they?"
Directed by Stephen Unwin, the all-male cast includes Nicholas Rowe, James Wallace and James Faulkner.
The production runs Tuesday, June 7 to Saturday, June 11, evenings at 7.45pm with Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm.
Tickets, priced £12-£20 (£8 under 25s) from the box office on 01684 892277 or online at www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
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