Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (Adaption)

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Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth was a play by Tom Stoppard, written in 1979.

[edit] Play

Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth are two plays by Tom Stoppard, written to be performed together.

In Dogg's Hamlet we find the actors speaking a language called Dogg, which consists of ordinary English words but with meanings completely different from the ones we assign them. Three school children are rehearsing a performance of Hamlet in English, which is to them a foreign language. Cahoot's Macbeth is usually performed with Dogg's Hamlet, and shows a shortened performance of Macbeth carried out under the eyes of a secret policeman who suspects the actors of subversion against the state.

[edit] Adaptation

In 2005 Joey Zimmerman made an adaptation of the play in the USA. The shooting location was the Knightsbridge Theatre, the same theatre which put on a production of Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth in 2000.

Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth includes two one-acts by Tom Stoppard deal with important social issues through the performance of abridged versions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth.

In Dogg's Hamlet, a group of Dogg-speaking high school students set up for and perform a fifteen minute version of Hamlet. Their process is dealt with by an unsuspecting deliveryman who finds he can't understand a word they're saying. In Cahoot's Macbeth, renegade Normalization-era Czech actors continue their private exhibition of Macbeth under the scrutinizing eye of a malicious police inspector.

[edit] External links

• Dogg's Hamlet Cahoot's Macbeth on IMDB