Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

South Shore Players

Opening : June 12

Closing : June 14

South Shore Players Theatre, 123 Empire Street, Bridgewater

Community Theatre

A special staged-reading in tribute to the brilliant playwright, Tom Stoppard (1937-2025)

Two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet — the attendant lords Rosencrantz and Guildenstern — now find themselves at the center of the action. There’s just one problem: They have no idea why they were summoned to Elsinore!

With Tom Stoppard’s trademark comic genius and witty wordplay, our hapless heroes encounter everything from a wandering band of players to a treacherous court of royals … while wondering if they have any control over their own fate.