15-Minute Hamlet

15-Minute Hamletis a 1976comedicabridgementofWilliam Shakespeare'sHamlet,written byTom Stoppard.

The play, an excerpt fromDogg's Hamlet,condenses the originalHamlet,including all the best-known scenes, into approximately 13 minutes of on-stage action. This is followed by another even more drastically reduced performance of the play from beginning to end, lasting 2 minutes, bringing the total running time up to 15 minutes.