I finally got round to reviewing that Arkangel production of Romeo and Juliet  which cast David Tennant as Mercutio.

My Arkangel audio CDs of Romeo and Juliet have arrived! (that's right, the production in which a certain Mr David Tennant is cast as Mercutio...) Now all I need is an evening undisturbed and a nice cup of cocoa...

Will report anon!
( Subsequent edit: mini-review under cut... )

I've discovered that my county public library stocks the whole of the Arkangel Shakespeare audio CD series.  Having just found out (thanks, Wikipedia)  that my dream casting of David Tennant as Mercutio already exists in audio, as does DT as Antipholus in Comedy of Errors, I'd had a look on Amazon and was resigning myself to splashing upwards of £ ( Read more... )

Here's one for my fellow DT-fans, which has been idly burbling on my mental back burner ever since  I saw Hamlet just before That Announcement a month ago:

Given that he clearly loves the stage (and let's face it, it loves him), it's not unreasonable to hope that post-Who Mr Tennant might be able to offer us a bit more live theatre.  (And one might ( Read more... )