Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead opens at LTCC Duke Theater for two-weekend run

"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" opened at Lake Tahoe Community College on Thursday night, the first of eight performances on the Duke Theatre stage.

The Tony Award-winning play and winner of the NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play is acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece. The fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.

The play is a Black Ice Theatre Co. production is directed by Rae W. Matthews and stars Tyler Martin and Jered Stowell. The other actors are Tom Callahan, Courtney Cobble, Doug Colt, Haley Harness, Thomas Lopez, Troy Matthews, Kalayna Miller, Aletha Nelligan, Andrea Rogers, and Kendall Wilson.

"Very funny, very brilliant, very chilling; it has the dust of thought about it and the particles glitter excitingly in the theatrical air. " - The New York Times

"A stimulating, funny, imaginative comedy." - The New York Daily News

WHERE: Lake Tahoe Community College's Duke Theatre
1 College Drive, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150

WHEN: June 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16
All shows 7:30 p.m. except June 16 at 2:00 p.m.

TICKETS: $15-$18 in advance, $20 at the door
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