Poetics, Perception, Disinterestedness: An Online Notebook

Showing posts with label theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theatre. Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2008

David Tennant's Hamlet

This summer The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet features David Tennant as the melancholy Prince of Denmark and Patrick Stewart as Claudius.

Tennant takes a break from the TARDIS (September 2007): Under a compromise agreement, Tennant is expected to return to the role for [Doctor Who's] fifth series since its revival, in 2010. He has agreed to film three extended bank holiday specials to keep fan’s happy during 2009.

[from shironezumi] Neil Gaiman on Tennant's Hamlet:

"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and...for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?"


Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Outrageous Fortune



Playing the Swan (106)

Slings and Arrows (2003-2006): Great Canadian TV comedy series about theatre, Shakespeare, Hamlet. It ran for three seasons and starred Paul Gross as Geoffrey Tennant, a 'legendary theatrical madman' who takes over as artistic director of a theatre company when his mentor passes away.

Oliver's dream is the pilot.

[videos] Try the trailer, then the pilot on YouTube in parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

[thanks to wheresmycow for suggesting this, and for keeping the sanity and faith: 'Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful.']