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Dr Who and Captain Picard Do Shakespeare, from CNN.
...I know, if I really try, I can sell a kidney in time to go see this. Really. This is, I suspect, why I was given two. Hamlet. Tennant and Stewart. I--really can't process this and remain sane, I think.
...I know, if I really try, I can sell a kidney in time to go see this. Really. This is, I suspect, why I was given two. Hamlet. Tennant and Stewart. I--really can't process this and remain sane, I think.
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but i can't complain, cause i saw Tennant in two different RSC productions back in 1997. he was AWESOME. i have bits of paper which his character in one play threw into the audience.
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Imagining him as Hamlet is seriously working for me.
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i mean, seriously, the lesbians in my group thought David Tennant was so amazing that even they wanted to jump him. of course, they were theatre geeks.
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I have always wanted to see Stewart on stage.
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I would have offered myself to Ian McKellen long ago (since I first saw youtube clips of him doing Macbeth and Richard III), but he wouldn't want me. *tragic sigh*
(totally unnecessary ETA: except it wasn't youtube, of course, because youtube wasn't AROUND in 1999. *headdesk* I love how that has become synonymous with "video" for me)
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I am actually not in any way racked with envy.
Because I believe that it will be the start of whotrekdammerung, the next great wank to hit fandom. And possibly the end of the world.
But the accents will be nice.
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I went to London with my theatre class in college, and at the Globe we saw a really not great play about pirates, which included Joseph Marcell (Geoffrey from Fresh Prince) and there were all these kids screaming 'Geoffrey' whenever they saw him onstage. Ugh. It was embarrassing, mostly for the poor actor, who had to keep in character and ignore it and it's distracting. However, when we went to Stratford and saw Antony and Cleopatra, with Patrick Stewart (OMG awesome), no one said a thing. Probably primarily because it was evening, and a different crowd, but I'm just kind of leery of something like that happening, and that directing and design and marketing choices are being made for the wrong reasons. I mean, there's no harm in capitalizing on the fame of the names of the actors, but I'm... I don't know. I'm glad I'm not able to go.
Also, Tennant's a bit too old for Hamlet in my book, but that's not really an issue, because it's never cast for the actual age bracket, it's Shakespeare. That's me and my theatre meta issues.
But man, I'm sure they're rocking that script. I know people who worked there, and who know people who still do, so it's all very... odd, hearing people complain about PS.
And I totally hope this will lead to PS being on Who.
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I was in London just a smidgen too early to catch this -- it killed me, that I was juggling my schedule to be late enough to catch one friend in town and early enough for another to be home in time to move out of her apartment, and so couldn't be there after the show started in late July -- but then again the friend who was staying for six weeks and was planning to catch the show (and who has issues with advance planning, in that she did shit like not try to get her plane ticket until two weeks in advance) found out that it was sold out and she'd have to sell a kidney just to afford a ticket on eBay. Meanwhile one of my London friends was talking about how he'd seen Stewart playing in something else Shakespeare a year or two back because he's got the RSC membership, and was debating using his membership to get a set of the London tickets when they went on sale and then make a killing with them on eBay. I did not report this conversation to the friend who was so crushed at not getting the ticket -- the more so since she was initially invited to the dinner with my local friends including the one who had the RSC membership, and I wound up ditching her on the way there due to travel incompatibility and general feduppedness and bitchitude.
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Funnily enough my colleague went to see the play Catherine Tate is currently in last week and found herself standing behind David Tennant in the queue to pick up her tickets, and then a few minutes later Patrick Stewart walked into the lobby. Needless to say there were a lot of jokes about 'Shouldn't you two be Hamlet-ing this evening?'!
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offering myself to him as a sex slave at that time though was out of question, coz I was 9 or 10 when i first saw TNG, and I am sure, he is no pedophile *g*
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on the topic on obsession-I'm planning a trip to London that will now be re-named as "that epic trip to see Picard in Hamlet"....so, no actual sightseeing or stuff...*headdesks at her own fangirlisnhness*
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I'll try to report good.
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There was already dangerously close-to-embarrassing fangirling at the one I went to, and that was just one of the preview performances. I'm really crossing my fingers that it doesn't get overboard as more and more fangirls see the show.
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Favourable review over at BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7540819.stm)
My favorite part:
Tennant also uses his hair to great theatrical effect. From the sleek combed-back style of his first scene, he ruffles it to display despair, rage and madness. It deserves a credit of its very own.
What I wouldn't do to go... :)
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... I could try to accost Tennant/Stewart to get something signed for you? With, 'Probably best the save the kidney until later, lots of love, Patrick', or something?
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I am so envious right now you have no idea. Happy for you! But God. YOU HAVE TO REPORT IT.
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The 26 of us have the cunning plan of ambushing them outside the stage door on Friday when everybody else is still in the theatre, for signings and general fannish squee-ing. But, seriously, if they're not too tired and if they're doing signings and if I get my cousin's and best friend's bits done first, I could try. I take it you wouldn't want the kidney line?
But, yeah, *26* of us.
*muses* Half price is still pretty good for under-16s with an adult (see here (http://www.rsc.org.uk/buyonline/955.aspx)). You could go with Child, and teach him about emoting and how to use hair to great effect ...
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BUT OMIGOD THE PLAY!! THE PLAY'S THE THING!! THE THING!!!!
Phenomenal. Seriously, the best Shakespeare interpretation I have ever seen, including the Othello with Ian McKellan which was, liek, whoa. And not just Tennant and Stewart, who were pretty indescribably amazing (I reckon that DT would have had to have been snorting cocaine/icing sugar mix every second he wasn't on stage, because I've never even seen hyper 6 year olds bounce that much). The rest of the cast were pretty incredible, too - and there was something rather cool about saying afterwards, "You know, in the final scene between Hamlet and Horatio, did anyone else's slashometers start going off ... ?" and having ten people nod frantically at you.
So, um, consolation signed stuff?
(click for EVEN BIGGER dual crotch/ass shot)
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