Though I enjoyed the South Bank programme about the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) because of my interest in the Company and its work, I did start to feel that it was more like a promotional DVD, than an in-depth study. It is sad to see a long running show axed and I hope other shows take its place,…
I felt that I was privileged to be able to attend the premiere of the Illuminations/BBC TV film version of Greg Doran’s RSC Hamlet at the BFI (British Film Institute). This blog is about the experience of being there at the screening, and I’ll wait until after the Boxing Day, when it is aired on…
There will be a change in the Doctor we kept getting told. What did we think before ‘The Waters of Mars’ aired? Possibly that the Doctor will give up and fail to save those he was sent to help. That his failure leads to tragedy on a grand scale and that he feels so bad he just gives up and because…
Read more Doctor Who, ‘The Waters of Mars’ (15th November 2009)
I couldn’t help making another Doctor Who and Hamlet connection when I saw the images of Jude Law performing ‘To be or not to be’ in the snow and thinking of those images of David Tennant as the Doctor’s apparent last moments staggering through the snow.
It is now official. The RSC production of Hamlet is to be filmed by the BBC and shown later this year on BBC 2. There had been a petition calling for the filming of the RSC’s 2008 production. The petition has reached nearly 8,000 signatures showing that the audience can have some influence on decisions.…
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
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…
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…
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