Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead..., Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead..., Tom Stoppard
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Author: Tom Stoppard

Narrator: JD Cullum, Seamus Dever, Adhir Kalyan, André Sogliuzzo, Anna Lyse Erikson, Martin Jarvis, Matthew Wolf, Susan Sullivan

Unabridged: 1 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/17/2022

Synopsis

While attempting to discover the roots of Hamlet’s unhappiness, two courtiers go on a journey to plumb the depths of the universe’s mysteries. Tom Stoppard’s wildly inventive, Tony® Award-winning first play takes us through a tilted version of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy while casting new light on questions of fate, mortality and the meaning of existence.
Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in June 2022.
Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording starring:JD Cullum as Claudius and Soldier;Seamus Dever as Hamlet;Anna Lyse Erikson as Opehlia and Alfred;Martin Jarvis as The Player;Adhir Kalyan as Rosencrantz;André Sogliuzzo as Polonius, Player-King, Ambassador, and Horatio;Susan Sullivan as Gertrude;Matthew Wolf as Guildenstern.
Senior Producer: Anna Lyse EriksonPrepared for audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodSound Design: David Wilson, Neil Wogensen and Charles CarrollRecording Engineer, Editor and Mixer: Charles CarrollSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinFoley Artist: Jeff Gardner

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on September 19, 2020

This is a classic existentialist work by playwright Tom Stoppard which focuses on an absurdist dialog between the two minor characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Thanks to my extraordinary high school AP English teacher, I was introduced to this wonderful and funny play an......more

Goodreads review by Manny on March 11, 2018

ROSENCRANTZ: Here we go again. GUILDENSTERN: But I thought we were...? ROSENCRANTZ: Were what? GUILDENSTERN: Well, dead. ROSENCRANTZ: No such luck. GUILDENSTERN: Are you positive? This doesn't look much like Elsinore. ROSENCRANTZ: Of course it doesn't. We're in a different play. GUILDENSTERN: What play? [En......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on May 29, 2007

Brilliant. It's fitting to choose the British designation for how wonderful I think this play is, I believe. This play manages to be absolutely stand on its own hilarious, as well as a thoughtful meditation on many issues at the same time. It pushes neither on the viewer/reader on its own, nor predo......more

Goodreads review by Jon on May 03, 2023

Karmic retribution for false friends...Hamlet: "Thou hast killed me in thine heart...and now in my true heart let thy execution take place; to false friendship - a dungeon that neither you nor I shall be condemned to...let thy execution be my final act of friendship." (So sorry Bill!)......more

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