It's Now or Never
Seeing Hamlet live, being performed by excellent actors, was a thrilling and enthralling experience. The only problem with it is that you can't see it over again whenever you want, like a film. It's performed, the memory fades, and then it's just...gone. But, at least I was lucky enough to have seen it, unlike countless people who couldn't get tickets because they didn't queue up at the box office the night before or couldn't get through the phone lines during the 2 hours between when the box office opened and the tickets sold out (the website totally crashed with the number of people trying to access it).
As there seems to be a great demand to see David Tennant performing Shakespeare these days, this video of him performing a scene from Measure for Measure for a documentary on Shakespeare has popped up on YouTube (via http://www.david-tennant.com/):
As described at the beginning of the video, the camera work in this piece was improvisational and (not described at the beginning of the video) subsequently not very good. Still, it was interesting to see Tennant playing a slimeball. I understand that he has a fairly good-sized body of work playing slimeballs, but I haven't seen any of those performances, except for Barty Crouch, Jr.
For something completely different, check out this film short:
As there seems to be a great demand to see David Tennant performing Shakespeare these days, this video of him performing a scene from Measure for Measure for a documentary on Shakespeare has popped up on YouTube (via http://www.david-tennant.com/):
Click to viewAs described at the beginning of the video, the camera work in this piece was improvisational and (not described at the beginning of the video) subsequently not very good. Still, it was interesting to see Tennant playing a slimeball. I understand that he has a fairly good-sized body of work playing slimeballs, but I haven't seen any of those performances, except for Barty Crouch, Jr.
For something completely different, check out this film short: