Watch Philip Seymour Hoffman Rock Three Parts In The Fifteen Minute Hamlet

 

IN 1995, Philip Seymour Hoffman played Bernardo, Horatio and Laertes in Todd Louiso’s 1995 version of Tom Stoppard’s 1976 play The Fifteen Minute Hamlet. Stoppard has enjoyed a hit with his Hamlet spin-off Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. In this play, Stoppard strips down Shakespeare’s play into 13 minutes – plus a two-minute encore.

There was no sequel to this satire on the Hollywood film industry. But Shakespeare would have wanted one; he, after all, produced many sequels, such as Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3…