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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Steve H on October 05, 2023, 07:34:39 PM

Title: 'Hamlet' with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, from 2009.
Post by: Steve H on October 05, 2023, 07:34:39 PM: I'm half-way through watching this on Iplayer, and am now having a break before resuming (it's three hours long). It's modern-dress, and has Tennant as the gloomy Dane and Stewart as both the ghost and Claudius. Excellent and recommended, although annoyingly they omitted my favourite three lines from the ghost's first speech:
"... thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand an end
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pk71s/hamlet
Title: Re: 'Hamlet' with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, from 2009.
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2023, 07:42:50 PM: It is good. Saw it in the theatre. And I'm old enough to remember watching the BBC adaptation in 1980 with Patrick Stewart as Claudius again to Derek Jacobi's Hamlet. So that Pucard has played Claudius both to the Doctor's and the Master's Hamlets
Title: Re: 'Hamlet' with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, from 2009.
Post by: jeremyp on October 06, 2023, 12:49:28 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2023, 07:42:50 PM
It is good. Saw it in the theatre. And I'm old enough to remember watching the BBC adaptation in 1980 with Patrick Stewart as Claudius again to Derek Jacobi's Hamlet. So that Pucard has played Claudius both to the Doctor's and the Master's Hamlets

I didn't realise that Derek Jacobi had played the Master in Doctor Who.

More impressively, Picard has played Claudius to Claudius.
Title: Re: 'Hamlet' with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, from 2009.
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 06, 2023, 12:59:12 PM: Quote from: jeremyp on October 06, 2023, 12:49:28 PM
I didn't realise that Derek Jacobi had played the Master in Doctor Who.

More impressively, Picard has played Claudius to Claudius.

And was Sejanus in I, Claudius
Title: Re: 'Hamlet' with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, from 2009.
Post by: Steve H on October 06, 2023, 01:11:51 PM: Quote from: jeremyp on October 06, 2023, 12:49:28 PM
I didn't realise that Derek Jacobi had played the Master in Doctor Who.
Yes - in an episode called 'Utopia', set (rather ridiculously) trillions of years in the future, near the death of the universe, when we were expected to believe that humans were still around. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007qltt/doctor-who-series-3-11-utopia
Title: Re: 'Hamlet' with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, from 2009.
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 06, 2023, 02:48:41 PM: Quote from: SteveH on October 06, 2023, 01:11:51 PM
Yes - in an episode called 'Utopia', set (rather ridiculously) trillions of years in the future, near the death of the universe, when we were expected to believe that humans were still around. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007qltt/doctor-who-series-3-11-utopia
Much as I love Doctor Who (most of the time), 'rather ridiculously' wouldn't in itself narrow things down much.
Title: Re: 'Hamlet' with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, from 2009.
Post by: Steve H on October 06, 2023, 03:03:03 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 06, 2023, 02:48:41 PM
Much as I love Doctor Who (most of the time), 'rather ridiculously' wouldn't in itself narrow things down much.
Very true. It's not really science fiction; it's fairy tales with a thin veneer of pseudo-science. I still love it, though.
Title: Re: 'Hamlet' with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, from 2009.
Post by: SqueakyVoice on October 06, 2023, 07:37:36 PM: Dr Who, now watching on ITVX, the first series was written by Terry Nation. I have a vague memory that I read a load of his books at school.