15-Minute Hamlet

Alternative title: Fifteen Minute Hamlet
Synopsis: John Dougall plays Hamlet in this 15-minute radio version of Tom Stoppard’s play of the same name. Directed and produced by Eoin O’Callaghan.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 30 Jun 2007 at 19:00 (Channel: BBC Radio 4)
Duration: 15 mins

History: Part of the Stoppard Season on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3 celebrating his 70th birthday.
Reviews: In a review for The Guardian, Elisabeth Mahoney writes "Listening to Tom Stoppard’s 15 Minute Hamlet(Radio 4), it wasn’t clear whether this shrunken Shakespeare was a cheeky send-up or testimony to the brilliance of Hamlet. And you didn’t have much time to wonder: this was the play at breakneck speed. It featured all the famous lines, and the less famous ones it included attained new, often comic, prominence. I’d never before noticed the detail, in Ophelia’s description of a troubled Hamlet, of "his knees knocking together". (Guardian Unlimited, 2 July 2007).

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