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The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
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Author: Tom Stoppard Publisher: Samuel French (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 30 Pub. Date: 2016 ISBN-10: 0573025061 ISBN-13: 9780573025068 Cast Size: 2 female, 4 male
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About
the Book:
The
Fifteen Minute Hamlet
is a one-act comedy by Tom
Stoppard. Not
familiar with the story of Hamlet?
Tom Stoppard
has you covered with a whip-smart, comedic crash course in The
Fifteen Minute Hamlet.
Offers
a breathless condensation of the entire plot of William Shakespeare's
Hamlet, hitting
all the key scenes and lines in 15 minutes or less!
The
Fifteen Minute Hamlet is a
comedic abridgement of William Shakespeare's longest play Hamlet.
Following his success with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead, Tom Stoppard continues his association with Hamlet
by taking the most famous and best loved lines from Shakespeare's
play about the angst-riddled prince of Denmark and condensing them
into a hilarious fifteen minute version. The multitude of characters
is played by six actors with hectic doubling, and the action takes
place at an abridged Elsinore Castle. This miraculous feat is
followed by an encore that presents the whole play in a two minute
version!
The
Fifteen Minute Hamlet was first performed in 1976 on the terraces
of the National Theatre in London. First Broadway production was in
1992 at the Criterion Theatre Stage Right on a double-bill with The
Real Inspector Hound.
Cast:
2 female, 4 male
About
the Playwright:
Sir
Tom Stoppard (born Tomás Straüssler) is a Czech-born British
playwright and screenwriter. His family had to flee to Singapore at
the onset of the Nazi invasion. The family moved to England in 1946,
where he left school at the age of seventeen to work for The
Western Daily Press, in Bristol. He was catapulted into the front
ranks of modern playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967, for which he was
awarded a Tony, the Prix Italia, the New York Critic's Award, and
Plays and Players Award for Best New Play. He has written
prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, and in 1998 shared a best
original screenplay Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. He was
knighted in 1997.
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