Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

In this absurd, existentialist tragicomedy, playwright Tom Stoppard reinvents <em>Hamlet</em> from the perspective of the two minor characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, childhood friends of Hamlet who King Claudius uses to get more information about the insane prince. There's plenty of witty, rapid-fire dialogue to accompany the existentialist philosophy. (PSA: this is easy to read for a play, but the 1991 movie with Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, and Richard Dreyfus isn't half bad.)