Word: hamlets
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INFLUENCED BY the philosopher Wittgenstein's theory of language, playwright Tom Stoppard developed Dogg, a dialect which uses the English language but assigns different meanings to each word. Stoppard teaches his audience Dogg in the first play of his pair, Dogg's Hamlet, and uses it to convey his point in the second, Cahoot's Macbeth. He writes: "the first is hardly a play at all without the second, which cannot be performed without the first...
...Dogg's Hamlet opens with Abel, played by Fouad Onbargi, and Baker, played by Jeffrey Wise, throwing a football and yelling "Brick!" at each other. The boys' teacher Dogg, played by Andrew Watson, soon appears, calling them to order, and the audience hears its first conversation in Dogg. The dialogue is rendered intelligible only by the actors' movements, but eventually bits and pieces of the language are made clear with the help of Easy, a mover played by Amos Gelb, who speaks normal English...
...main obstacle is one of familiarity. Everyone seeing Julius Caesar knows what will happen on the Ides of March. Audiences viewing Macbeth rest assured that Burnham Wood will come to Dunsinane. And that the last act of Hamlet will be invevitably strewn with corpses...
...liquor sales a day before the voting, rescheduled soccer matches and postponed a popular television soap opera until five minutes after the polls had closed. In rural areas, entire villages, in a swirl of colorful peasant costumes, dutifully trooped to local election halls behind brass bands. In the northwestern hamlet of Szczecinek, voting was temporarily disrupted when a woman gave birth to a healthy son beside the ballot box. In Walesa's hometown of Gdansk, 3,000 people marched through the streets carrying a banner that proclaimed WE WON'T GO TO THE POLLS, and in the steel-mill city...
Roberts finally concludes that the entirety of Australian Coke's problem lies in the small outback hamlet of Anderson Valley, where old fashioned operator T. George McDowell (Bill Kerr) has carved out his own soft-drink niche. What ensues is a war for the American way, with men in Santa Claus suits (what does this mean?) trying to market Coke at a Rotary social, and fleets of big red trucks pouring into the valley in the name of free trade...