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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.

Comments

[nacbrie.livejournal.com]

I am packing! To go to London and then Stratford to see Hamlet on Saturday! And the tickets are only £5 for under-26s. I got them when they'd been on sale for about two hours, to go to meet up with a load of DW people on doctorwho_meets. And, yeah, flights from Dublin and trains/buses cost a fair bit, but £5 each!

... 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?

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*huge eyes* Are you kidding?

I am so envious right now you have no idea. Happy for you! But God. YOU HAVE TO REPORT IT.

[nacbrie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. Under-16s are only half the price of an adult ticket with the family discount, but 16-25s get the super-duper really limited £5 tickets. I think, to encourage the geeky and broke Shakespeare-loving students. *loves the RSC's logic*

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. __kali__ is made of organisational AWESOME.

*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 ...

[nacbrie.livejournal.com]

Okay, well I did *try*. The Ten Inch only bounced out the stage door for about a minute, signed stuff for the kids, and bounced back in again, and I could only get my cousin's and friend's stuff signed by Russel T. Davies, who was hanging out in the lobby at the interval, and I think that I got the closest to Patrick Stewart out of anyone when I ran in to him (and then bounced off him. He has a very solid shoulder) as we were sprinting to the stage door after the performance. He was not amused.

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?


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