Two Elizabethans walk into a tragedy. They just don’t know it yet.

Tom Stoppard’s wildly inventive and endlessly entertaining dark comedy turns Shakespeare’s Hamlet inside out, placing two minor courtiers — Rosencrantz and Guildenstern — squarely in the spotlight as the famous tragedy unfolds just beyond their view.

Summoned to the Danish court for reasons they can’t quite remember, the pair drift through a world that obeys strange rules and even stranger logic. Coins land heads again and again. Language becomes a game. Identity blurs. And the unsettling sense grows that their lives may already be scripted.

In this bold production, women step into the iconic leading roles, bringing fresh perspective and surprising vulnerability to these hapless travelers caught between fate and free will. Along the way, a troupe of traveling actors arrives to stage a play within the play, dissolving the boundaries between performance and reality — and forcing our heroes to confront questions far larger than they ever intended.

Equal parts hilarious and haunting, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a dazzling exploration of chance, choice, mortality, and the strange comfort of the stories we tell ourselves. A comedy that dances on the edge of the abyss — clever, playful, and unexpectedly moving.

Whether you know Hamlet by heart or are meeting these characters for the first time, this absurdist masterpiece offers laughter, wonder, and more than a few existential surprises.