If your teenagers complain Shakespeare is too long and boring, and that they don’t understand it, then the Watermill Theatre’s new adaptation of Hamlet is what they need.

Performed by three actors in 75 minutes, Outreach director Beth Flintoff’s show has a contemporary setting, and is currently touring schools before arriving at The Watermill for a week-long run from Monday.

Hamlet is one of the most performed plays ever written, by a playwright at the height of his genius.

When his father dies suddenly in suspicious circumstances, Hamlet returns home to find that his mother has married his uncle, who now rules Denmark in his father’s place. Torn between desire for revenge and loyalty to his mother, gripped by indecision, Hamlet must forge a new future for himself and Denmark.

Shakespeare’s masterpiece about a young man poised on the brink of a series of cataclysmic decisions is brought sharply to life.

Beth Flintoff said: “We have created this production with a simple aim: to pass on our own enthusiasm for Shakespeare. We hope to reach as many people - particularly young people - as possible, with an affordable, accessible production of a play that we think everyone ought to experience”.

Shows are Monday-Friday at 7.30pm, with matinees on Wednesday and Thursday. Tickets are £7.50-12.50, £10 under-25s from 01635 46044.