Prologue - Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

Prologue - Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

Author: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival June 6, 2025 Duration: 13:09

Get primed for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s 2025 Undiscovered Countries Season with our Prologue mini-episodes. In this installment, Director of Education and Community Engagement, Kim Carson, guides us through the absurdist adventures, existential quandaries, and comedic pitfalls awaiting Shakespeare’s most famously sidelined duo in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, a playful dive into identity, fate, and the uncertainties hidden between the lines of Hamlet.

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