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...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...
...schoolboys run around under the picky eyes of their teacher in hasty preparation for a performance of Hamlet, in English, which gives Stoppard an opportunity to exploit his linguistic invention...
...STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE of Hamlet in an unfamiliar language--English--makes their acting and dialogue purposely stilted. The result is an hilarious version of the Shakespearean play. Fox Major, played by Wood Foster, is wonderful as the gangly-legged Hamlet and constantly mistakes meanings of words--for example, by holding up three fingers when he counts...
Charlie, played by Linus Gelber, has the roles of both Osric and Ophelia in Hamlet. He is especially funny in drag as Ophelia, the facetious lover of both Laertes and Hamlet, and performs her death scene with drawn-out agony...
...Lady, played by Anne Mini, watches the play with the audience and is so impressed with the performance of Hamlet that she requests an encore. Her request is granted and the entire play is acted again in double time. This performance steals the show because of the actors' versatility with quick and accurate character changes and facial expressions...