Three schoolboys who speak only Dogg confuse a lorry driver who speaks only English. Dogg’s Hamlet’s goofy linguistic mismatches tumble into a performance of the 15 Minute Hamlet.
In Cahoot’s Macbeth, a forbidden living-room production of Shakespeare’s play, interrupted by a wise-cracking Inspector, parallels Macbeth’s usurpation of the Scottish throne before Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia. By play’s end, Shakespeare explodes into Dogg.
“The language and the laughter are contagious...Lewis Carroll would have been at home.” —The New York Times
