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Hamlet - David Tennant stars in RSC's version

David Tennant

Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle

NEXT YEAR, David Tennant will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company to take the title role in Hamlet which runs from July 24 to November 15, 2008, at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. And although it will subsequently transfer to the West End for a limited run, a venue has yet to be confirmed.

Early in his career, Tennant spent two seasons with the RSC, appearing in productions such as The Herbal Bed (as Jack Lane), As You Like It (as Touchstone), The Comedy of Errors (as Antipholus of Syracuse), and Romeo and Juliet (as Romeo). More recently, he appeared in Slab Boys Trilogy (Young Vic) and Look Back in Anger (Edinburgh and Bath).

However, he is probably best known for his roles on television, in particular, in Dr Who and Casanova.

Hamlet will be directed by Gregory Doran and also star Patrick Stewart as Claudius.

Stewart’s West End credits include Ibsen’s The Master Builder, Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre, his own one-man adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and the Royal Shakespeare Company transfers of Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest. He is shortly to appear in the Chichester Festival production of Macbeth at the Gielgud Theatre.
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At Stratford, Hamlet will run in repertoire with Doran’s Love’s Labour’s Lost with Tennant playing the lovelorn Berowne.

The Donmar Warehouse is also presenting a production of Hamlet in the West End – at Wyndham’s Theatre, where Kenneth Branagh will direct Jude Law in the title role.
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