Hamlet wrestles with his demons, while his two sidekicks take centre stage. Full of dazzling wordplay and theatrical invention, Stoppard’s comic masterpiece reveals surprising new twists on Shakespeare’s most famous play.
Tom Stoppard is one of Britain’s greatest playwrights. His brilliant debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, launched an award-winning writing career that has included the plays Jumpers, Travesties, Arcadia and The Invention of Love as well as the screenplays for Empire of the Sun and Shakespeare in Love.