Hamlet starring David Tennant to transfer to London
This news via aria28 What's On Stage have revealed that the RSC will be transferring Hamlet starring David Tennant, to London for Xmas 2008 for a limited six to eight weeks at a West End venue still to be confirmed. It will finish in January 2009.
Speaking at a press briefing held in London today, chief associate director Gregory Doran said he had admired Tennant since seeing him as Touchstone in Steven Pimlott’s 1996/7 production of As You Like It, when he recognised him as "a brilliant wordsmith and a brilliant young classical actor". He was inspired to approach Tennant about Hamlet after watching him unwittingly pick up a skull during the family heritage TV programme Who Do You Think You Are? in September 2006.
While now best known to TV fans for his adventures in Doctor Who, from which he'll take a year off to fulfil his RSC commitments, Tennant launched his career on stage in his native Scotland. Early in his career, he spent two seasons with the RSC, where his other roles included Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Jack in Peter Whelan’s The Herbal Bed. RSC artistic director Michael Boyd said today that, having already spent effectively three years with the RSC, it was "a very natural thing for him (Tennant) to come back and graduate to that toughest of roles."
So if you can't make Stratford next summer, bear in mind the possibility of making it to London to see David instead !!
Speaking at a press briefing held in London today, chief associate director Gregory Doran said he had admired Tennant since seeing him as Touchstone in Steven Pimlott’s 1996/7 production of As You Like It, when he recognised him as "a brilliant wordsmith and a brilliant young classical actor". He was inspired to approach Tennant about Hamlet after watching him unwittingly pick up a skull during the family heritage TV programme Who Do You Think You Are? in September 2006.
While now best known to TV fans for his adventures in Doctor Who, from which he'll take a year off to fulfil his RSC commitments, Tennant launched his career on stage in his native Scotland. Early in his career, he spent two seasons with the RSC, where his other roles included Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Jack in Peter Whelan’s The Herbal Bed. RSC artistic director Michael Boyd said today that, having already spent effectively three years with the RSC, it was "a very natural thing for him (Tennant) to come back and graduate to that toughest of roles."
So if you can't make Stratford next summer, bear in mind the possibility of making it to London to see David instead !!