I was planning this year, if I ever managed to save enough money (i.e., juggle my bills cleverly enough), to renew my passport, book a ticket to the UK, and catch a performance of Hamlet, my favoritist play ever, currently starring my current favoritist actor (hey I like skinny white guys, and I don’t care that he drives a Prius). But I’ll bet you the fucker is sold out by now, and I don’t think I’ll be able to afford to do anything but possibly renew my passport. Alas. The fact that a lot of the people renting out the planes at my place of work are from Across the Pond (taking advantage of the current strong Euro and relatively cheap US fuel prices, they all tell me) doesn’t help one bit. I really need to see my ancestral home before it goes completely Muslim/Chav. Sniff.
Update: did I completely fuck up the title to this post? Yup, I did. Oh well — FIXED. Damn white zinfandel.
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May 14th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Hey Andrea,
I understand totally the attraction Tennant has.
mmmmmmmmmmmmm
May 14th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
You know, I can never decide whether I like Hamlet or not…
May 14th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
… or to be questionable …
Cheers
May 14th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Just wait. The whole cast will emigrate to Florida.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:30 am
It’s The Scottish Play for me.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead has forever tinted my view of Hamlet.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:08 am
The Tempest is my fave with The Taming of the Shrew a very close second. I have a video (yes, a VHS video) of the version with John Cleese as Petruchio: he is the best Petruchio I have ever seen by a very long way, bringing a flawless level of manic energy where required, and being darkly ominous where required, as in the ‘I swear, I’ll cuff thee’ scene.
Weird how working in the industry does not help you on this score. How come?
MarkL
canberra
May 15th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Dang. I’d like to see that one with John Cleese. I wonder if it’s on dvd yet, and if so is it on a US-compatible dvd? Well, considering my eclectic tastes in entertainment, perhaps I should buy one of those dvd players that can play dvds set for more than one zone…
May 15th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Speaking of The Tempest, if anyone has a copy of A Walk Through Prospero’s Library, name your price.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:04 am
Hmm. My tape is getting old and tatty. Amd I’d like to transfer it to DVD.
Better go fins a kid and see if he knows how to do it. Lord knows, I dont.
markL
Canberra
May 20th, 2008 at 6:35 am
If you like David Tennant, I suggest you watch the DVD of Blackpool. Yum!
May 20th, 2008 at 8:57 am
I have it on my queue at Netflix, but they don’t actually have the dvd in yet.