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...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...
...CAHOOT'S MACBETH also has its clever moments. Stoppard wrote the play under the direction of Czechoslovakian playwright Pavel Kohout, who experienced the decade of "normalization" following the fall of the Dubcek government in his country. During this period, the government prevented many people, including actors, from pursuing their careers. This repression provides the context for the second play...
Like Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's is a play within a play; it is set in the living room of a flat somewhere in Prague. The actors are performing Macbeth for an audience of other displaced actors when the snide, cynical government Inspector (Andrew Watson) enters the apartment and interrupts the act. He chides Landovsky (Chuck Cannon) for being an actor who must sweep factories and sell newspapers to make money...
...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...
...students producing plays this term said they believe there's a lack of actors or techies. Marcie L. Bobis '88, producer of "Dogg's Hamlet" and "Cahoot's Macbeth" said that "120 people tried out for our comedies and we could only accept 10. We were not at all constrained in our choice of actors...