Comments on: Hamlet with David Tennant, Patrick Stewart

By: joe

joe — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:21:35 +0000

gf and i went to see hamlet and are going to watch love labours lost on tuesday 7th. booked into the swan hotel last time but found a nice cheaper b&b for £60. found the david tennant watching on this thread amusing although I would be in gf’s good books if we found his cafe and had breakfast with him lol

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:58:57 +0000

I made the trip over from the States to England for Hamlet (though I made a more ‘touristy’ trip out of it by being there for 2 weeks and enjoying all the other stuff England/London has to offer). And I thought he was great. That may be because I’m fairly new to the whole theater world (as this is my first venture into seeing more than a local performance of something such as Shakespeare, which I did a few times in high school.. I’m only in university now), so I’m not as attune to the problems and what might make a performance not as legendary. He’s not the best in the world, but I think he’s settling into the roll and I think he did a fairly decent job in my eyes. It’s made me respect him even more as an actor, and it was a brilliant way to end my trip.

And I think this play has done it’s job. Part of the reason I think the cast is how it is, is to attract younger audiences to the Bard, and honestly, if I could go see another performance at the RSC (Tennant in it or not), I would most definately.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:32:40 +0000

I booked very late. All the tickets had been snapped up, but the Keith Prowse ticket Agency were selling a Hotel+ticket package. The combined cost of ticket+Hotel was about the same as if I had purchased both seperately.

However, I’d not normally pay £110 per night, per room, for my accomodation.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:29:53 +0000

Booked about a year ago, when it was first announced. There’s no truth in the rumour that he made me fondle his sonic screwdriver for a ticket.

By: Bill Lees

Bill Lees — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:23:20 +0000

By the way, Bruce, I forgot to ask you how the bloody hell you managed to get a ticket to see this production. Did you have to bum David Tennant?

By: dorinda

dorinda — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:45:49 +0000

Time was when audience members might easily find actors in the Mucky duck, or local equivalent, and be able to have a private ‘talk-back’ session over a pint.
Not any more -not with actors becoming dangerously almost more important than what play they’re in. Now they probably couldn’t pop out for a sticky bun without getting mobbed!