Tom Stoppard’s inverted retelling of Shakespeare’s most notable tragedy puts two minor characters at center stage as they try to sort out the confusing but clearly important events they’ve been caught up in. Throughout, they parse the thin lines between truth and facade, fate and chance, memory and fantasy, and most importantly, exits and entrances.

Spinning coins

Still spinning coins

Guildenstern pontificates

Rosencrantz gesticulates

The Player

The Player and the Tragedians

The Tragedians

The Player taunts Rosencrantz

Gertrude and Claudius

Hamlet

The Player explains

Ophelia enters

"The Murder of Gonzago"

"Spies"

Alfred emerges on the boat

Guildenstern finds the letter that seals their fate

Director, Mikaela Kafka
Set Design: Jennifer Robinson, Costume Design: Stefanie Genda, Lighting Design: Paul Carver, Sound Design: John P. Dowgin
​Photos by Stefanie Genda