Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Where: CAA Theatre, 651 Yonge St.
When: Now, until Sat., April 6
Highlight: Andrew Cull’s malleable set, which allows director Jeremy Webb to generate several interesting stage images.
Rating: NNN (out of 5)
Why you should go: Fans of The Lord of the Rings will delight in the chance to see two former Hobbits — Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan — in action.
The pair of actors take on the title roles of Tom Stoppard’s 1966 tragicomedy about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters in Hamlet. Though, in my view, Webb’s Neptune Theatre production never quite finds its rhythm, the show’s visual world is highly evocative, thanks in part to lighting designer Leigh Ann Vardy, who conjures Nordic frigidity via blues and greens. The oddly shaped CAA Theatre has never looked better.
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