Theater of the Absurd plays deal with existentialist themes such as the meaninglessness or absurdity of existence, a theme which runs throughout Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead emerged from the Theater of the Absurd movement popular in Europe in the decades following World War II. Since then, the play has been adapted into several radio plays and a 1990 film starring Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, and Richard Dreyfuss. First performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1966, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead enjoyed critical success, winning The New York Drama Critics’ Circle’s Award for Best Play and four Tony Awards in 1968. It is an existentialist, absurdist satire featuring characters and events from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a three-act play by the English playwright Tom Stoppard.
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