“A man standing in his saddle in the half-lit half-alive dawn banged on the shutters and called two names...”Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are lost. They have the feeling that this is not the first time...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is Tom Stoppard's absurd reimagining of history's greatest play through the eyes of its least important characters. This subversive take on the classic inverts the genders of all the characters - bringing into question the role of identity in life and theatre, all while adding to the confusion of the protagonists