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. The play, an excerpt from '' Dogg's Hamlet'', condenses the original ''Hamlet'', including all the best-known scenes, into approximately 13 minutes of on-stage action. This is followed by another even more drastically reduced performance of the play from beginning to end, lasting 2 minutes, bringing the total running time up to 15 minutes.15-Minute Hamlet
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