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Cahoot's Macbeth

Short Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  3f, 2m

Cahoot's Macbeth
by Tom Stoppard

This is part of a double bill: Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth, and Stoppard explains that "the first is hardly a play at all without the'second which cannot be performed without the first." Cahoot's Macbeth ingeniously abbreviates Shakespeare and co…

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3f, 2m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptation (Shakespeare)

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Summary
This is part of a double bill: Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth, and Stoppard explains that "the first is hardly a play at all without the'second which cannot be performed without the first." Cahoot's Macbeth ingeniously abbreviates Shakespeare and combin's it with linguistic jokes, political comment and farce.
  • Time Period Contemporary

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Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard’s most recent play, Leopoldstadt, opened at Wyndham's Theatre in 2020 and transferred to Broadway in 2022. It won multiple Awards, including an Olivier Award and Tony Award for Best Play. He wrote his first play, Enter a Free Man, whilst working as a journalist i ...

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