when at a performance of Hamlet...

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...to think that (a) having a whispered plot conference with your companion after every scene and (b) clapping your hands or (worse) slapping your thighs every time you hear a line you recognise are the signs of an idiot? I'd heard the joke about the person who left a performance of Hamlet saying that they'd enjoyed it, but the script was just a load of famous quotes, but I didn't expect to see it in action. And camcordering the curtain call because John Simm is in it? FFS.

I know, I know, when in the provinces Rome, expect provincials Romans, but it's rather annoying.

Still, not as

*off

Where's the OP gone?

Has she literally disappeared up her own arse?

pmsl @ Shirley :o

I saw the Supposed-to-be-David-Tennant-but-he-did-his-back-in Hamlet and it would have been a wonderful production but for the row of teenagers in front who spent the whole play texting, talking and muttering about how UNFAIR it was that DT wasn't in it....

I love Hamlet, have seen loads of productions, but the one that really worked and probably the best I've ever seen was a pub production on a tiny stage in the round, set on a council estate where Claudius was the local hard man who'd knocked off his brother to get his gang/missus.

The thing I never get about Hamlet is why Ophelia goes mad over her father's murder... but then that says more about my relationship with my own dad than it does about the play, tbh!

I must be the only person in the world who CAN'T STAND Judi Dench.

No you're not - my dad will leave the room or switch the TV off if she appears. He's the same with Dawn French and Russell Brand.

I can't stand Dawn French either - how strange! :)

Dad?

???

I mean how strange that we both hate DF and JD. There aren't many people that I have an irrational hatred of but DF and JD are two of them. I have no opinion about RB (except that scarily I sometimes look like him on waking up - arghhh).

:o

Ah sorry I thought maybe my father had been moonlighting as an MNer for all these years.

If you said you couldn't stand Jonathan Ross, Terry Wogan and Sian the weather woman I would know for sure :)

Jude Law wasn't bad in the Donmar West End series.

Certainly wouldn't pay to see anything with Dawn French, even begrudge the licence fee where she's concerned.

Sorry Evil - I 'got' it after I'd posted. being v slow today!

Actually (dare I admit this?) I have a bit of a soft spot for Ross and Wogan - and I don't know who Sian the weather woman is.

Isn't Sian the Weather Woman the very nice blonde lady who was engaged to Lembit Opik (!) and got thrown over for a Cheeky Girl?

Judi Dench - utterly limited to one role, but uses it across centuries. The "M" role in James Bond was Queenie in Shakespeare in Love as an eg.

Macbeth - excellent production at RSC circa 1986 - Jonathan Pryce as the Thane - the set reduced in size between scenes/acts t odemonstrate the sense of claustrophobia in his mind. Rather excellent final scene, too involved to describe here.

OP - you are such a petty thinker. Shakespeare would have been ashamed of you.

and yes Sian is lovely.

OP - but at least you aren't as pretentious as Quattro. A saving grace.

That's a strange comment Pan. Where's that come from? If you have a problem with one of my posts, why not just come out and debate it with me, preferably with some semblance of good humour.

I hate it when idiots go out.

After seeing Jesus Christ super star i over heard the two women in the seats behind us, one said to her friend "so what did you think" and her friend said, "oh it was good but I did not like the ending", how the heck did she think it was going to end?!

I went to see Jesus Christ Superstar many years ago before children and the idiot braying woman sitting behind me had decided taking her two primary-aged sons to see the show was the ideal way to introduce them to the concept of Christianity... cue loud, careful explanations of who 'Jesus' was and how 'some people' believed that he was the son of God, and 'ooh, look boys, they're crucifying him now, that was a common method of execution in Roman times'.... gaah!

OP - Do fuck off. I'd rather be provincial than pretentious. You are so far up your own arse if you look down you will see your tonsils.