Tom Stoppard’s iconic play is set “in the wings” of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, filtering the dark intrigue of The Bard’s infamous tragedy through the eyes of the two minor characters known as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Often described as ‘absurd’, ‘existential’ and ‘tragicomic’, this radical work caught between the original action of its source material and self-referential musings about the writing process, is often compared to the theatre of Samuel Beckett – riddled as it is with dark comedy and punctured by long silences.
This is the play that established a young Stoppard’s career after its first staging at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966.
In 1990, Stoppard himself also wrote and directed a film adaptation of this work, starring Gary Oldman as Rosencrantz and Tim Roth as Guildenstern.
Showing live from The Old Vic as part of the Spazju Kreattiv programme, this staging of Stoppard’s modern classic is directed by David Leveaux, with Daniel Radcliffe as Rosencrantz, Joshua McGuire as Guildenstern and David Haig as The Player.
The live screening is taking place tomorrow at St James Cavalier in Valletta at 8pm. An encore performance is scheduled for April 28 at 7.30pm. For more information and tickets visit www.kreattivita.org/en/organizer/spazju-kreattiv/ or call 2122 3200.