Last year around this time the London theatre world was all a-buzz over a new production of Hamlet from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Tickets for the limited run sold out in three hours, and we’ll concede that some of the mania stemmed from the casting of Doctor Who’s David Tennant as Hamlet opposite Star Trek’s Patrick Stewart as Claudius. But theatre buffs were as excited as everyone else, and even the lion’s share of the critics were onboard. For all who are sorry they missed it, and for all who were lucky enough to see it, the production has been adapted to film for the BBC’s holiday schedule. Look for it next year on PBS and on DVD. Click here for a review from the BBC News archive. Be sure and scroll down for a video report from the stage door.
Tags: David Tennant, Hamlet, Shakespeare
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I saw the complete epsiode of this on Discovery Channel (in the US) very interesting but rather sad How come we don’t create a faux iceberg that is really a powered raft to help all the bears get where they are going? They hop on, and we drive it or via GPS it drives itself.I’m all for technology, and using robotic cameras to see what we normally wouldn’t, but how about we take the next step and use technology to actually DO SOMETHING, rather than just make TV?