Planet Gallifrey: Tennant's Hamlet

Friday, May 29

Tennant's Hamlet

The high and mighty really DO listen to the people sometimes!

If, like me, you missed David Tennant's highly praised role as Hamlet, then do not fear any longer. Its been confirmed that its coming to our screens!

As reported by the Daily Mail:

David Tennant is bringing his Hamlet to the screen. Tennant famously played the Danish prince as part of a Royal Shakespeare Company ensemble at Stratford and in the West End.

The entire cast from that production will be joining him, including Patrick Stewart as Claudius, Penny Downie as Gertrude, Mariah Gale as Ophelia and Edward Bennett as Laertes. Gregory Doran, who staged the play for the RSC, will shoot the film version on location.


Doran's stage production became a phenomenon and every night in Stratford and London there were people queuing around the block for returns.

The joint RSC/BBC production will be shown first on BBC2 and there are plans being discussed for it to be released on DVD. As BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow noted, 'it's a wonderful opportunity to bring one of the great stage successes of last year to a wider audience'.

You can also read about this from the BBC or from the RSC
Hooray!

8 comments:

Kate said...

YAY! I'm sooo excited for this! ^___^

Anonymous said...

Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

Anonymous said...

SQUEEEEEEEEEE! :-D

flying girl said...

YEEEEEEES! So happy! Can't stop smiling! I guess I'll have to buy multiregional DVD player, but oh well!

Hamlet! I wish they'd done it with 'Love's labours lost' as well!

Anonymous said...

SQUEEEEEEEEE! I'm so happy. Patrick Stewart and David *sighs*

BTW, for all you Americans, I've been told that the Playstation 3 is multiregional. Thank God my sister is a gamer. XD

Romana said...

Oh my...These are increible news which apparently just made my day!!!

Bec said...

Yay, so I don't have to fly to London to see it!

Anonymous said...

oh, it had better be released on dvd!!! and in america, cuz otherwise, I might die.

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