Carla said during the episode of Coronation Street last night: “The lady protest too much. Methinks.” So there is a Hamlet connection. As the programme developed the storyline, it wasn’t Hamlet that I felt it was alluding to but Richard III. As the evil Tony admits to his murders and then tries to bare his…
Read more Richard III (ITV 1, Coronation Street, 6th February 2009)
It’s going to snow again tomorrow and we’ve all be warned about the weather. It was icy this morning, but I could walk on it. I worry when the children are going to school they’ll make slides then it becomes very slippy on the paths. I’m sure it snowed much worse than this when we…
Ok I said I was getting a little fed up with the ‘Tony is a murderer’ Coronation Street story line yesterday, but it was a great cliff hanger tonight. Just like Emilia in Othello, Carla is out to expose her husband for the rat he is. We all know what happened in Othello, so a…
Read more Is Carla Emilia? (ITV1, Coronation Street, 4th February 2009)
I have just been reading Russell Davies’ The Writer’s Tale. The book is about the conception and filming of Series 4 of Doctor Who. So a very heavy hardback, with lots of delicious photographs of the programme and behind the scenes stuff, as well as snippets of scripts. Written in an epistolatory style, it uses…
The Daily Telegraph are now saying that David Tennant was excluded from the Oliver award nominations because he only did a few perfomances in the role. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4446759/David-Tennant-excluded-from-voting-for-Laurence-Olivier-Awards.html
The death of a close relative has made her mad. She is desperately trying to find find out if her Brother in Law has killed her husband. Could Maria Connor be the Hamlet of the 2009s? OK it might be pushing the link somewhat but there are connections which can be made. The difference though…
Read more Is Maria like Hamlet (ITV1, Coronation Street, 2nd February 2009)
As I am reading through my Reader and Google Alerts, I get information that David Tennant has not been nominated for an Olivier award. I feel a little sense of disappointment. Probably because I have felt that I have been tied up with this production for so long. Probably a little harder for David Tennant…
The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company) Courtyard Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon.)The production of The Merchant of Venice, which we saw in Newcastle, raised many interesting questions about the play. It was a production which asked the audience to make meanings. It raised questions about the character of Shylock, the differences between Belmont and Venice…
Read more The Merchant of Venice, RSC 2008 (7th June 2008, 8th October 2008, 25th October 2008)
Thoughts written at the time, I saw Hamlet for the first time. On thinking about the Doctor Who Hamlet….When I visited Stratford in August to see David Tennant’s Hamlet, I was as much interested in the experience – before and after – as well as the production itself. What I mean by this was that…
The Tour is free and you get a map of where to go, so we decided to give it a go. It was interesting and not always easy to find the works, though I must admit sometimes we couldn’t see for looking. The Tour takes you along the back streets around the Tate, and you…
Julie Raby 