The Play's the Thing

[neadods]

David Tennant's Hamlet will be in the West End of London from the beginning of December to January 10. I CAN SEE DAVID TENNANT'S HAMLET! For this, I will buy Hamlet tickets and I will go with a smile on my face... even though I happen to hate Hamlet, actually. But Tennant + Patrick Stewart is not to be missed. I wonder if it's worth getting an RSC membership (and if, as a Yankee, I can) to beat the rush in September.

Dude. Last time I went to see an RSC production at their home theater, some guy name Jacobi was alternating Benedick and Cyrano (and oh, what I would do for video of those performances!)

Burn Gorman's going to be in Oliver at the same time, and I've already bought tickets for me & M for the Doctor Who Meets at John's panto.

We picked travel dates tonight, so now it's a case of saving money and filing paperwork (and buying plane tickets and play tickets before they sell out)


Also, I now have three sets of 16" #7 circular needles from three companies... and they are three different lengths. Oy.


Shiny! I've got to read more bento stuff to get my head back onto the notion of packing my own lunches.


Passing on persiflage_1's rec for the 10/River story Everything Passes. calapine has a good one too.

Speaking of Forest of the Dead, I've got some new comments on Miss Evangelista based on flist and comm comments.

Now, her original character is clunky - for theme reasons, someone had to wander away from the group and into danger, and who better to do it than a complete moron? Ergo, Evangelista. Moffat has to deal with his own writerly karma regarding the lack-of-feminism in that decision, because I'm not going to go to bat for him when that plot point could have been handled differently. (Say, a guy trying to prove how brave he was by moving first into the shadows.)

However, I'm also not going to say Evangelista is unrealistic either, because I went to a Southern girls' finishing school, and there were quite a few girls who were being told by their parents to devote their single firing brain cell to being pretty so some guy would take care of them. (The actress was DEAD on regarding the body language and speech patterns of the type, oh yes.)

The furor seems to be that her face was messed up and her brain boosted in the matrix, and that in order to be loved she had to be made ugly. And that, I'm not going for. Her face was messed up and her brain boosted because of transcription mistakes, and I'm going to say that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. A single mistake somewhere can have all sorts of ramifications - witness DNA mutation.

As for affection, she wasn't loved because she was made ugly, nor was she unloved because she was made ugly. We know for a fact that she was utterly unloved and unrespected when she was completely beautiful and knew it. So I seriously don't comprehend where the argument "she *had* to be made ugly to be loved" comes from. She wasn't loved pretty and she wasn't loved ugly. She wasn't loved at all until the very end - an ending which put paid to the argument 'she has to have either looks or smarts' because in the end she has both looks AND smarts... AND finally the respect and affection of her co-workers.

Argue about Moff making her a dimwit, but the argument that he wrote looks/brains as mutually exclusive doesn't have a leg to stand on. ESPECIALLY if that's going to be hung on his neck as The Way He Writes Women, because River, Anita, Reinette, Sally, Nancy, and the other Nancy have something to say about that.

Comments

[easy-living.livejournal.com]

and if, as a Yankee, I can
Yes, but you have to pay by credit card and it's £60 for full membership as opposed to the £36 it would cost a UK resident. An Associate membership is only £36 for non-Europeans (or £15 for Brits) but entitles you to only two weeks priority booking instead of the four weeks you get as a Full member.

Whether it's worth it or not, I have no idea :-)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

The way tickets will fly away? I might be able to split the cost of one membership w/my roomie in return for my getting the two of us tickets.

[cleothyla.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would love to see David Tennant as Hamlet. You are soooo lucky! Please when you come back, tell us poor people who couldn't see it about it! *blinks*

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Aw, London would've been awesome, too, sparing me all the stress of getting to Stratford, but well... Stratford ^^

Does that mean you get Tennant AND teh Barrowman?? Slightly jealous ^^

[neadods.livejournal.com]

If I line the tickets up right, I get Tennant, Barrowman, Gorman, and I think Rowan Atkinson all in a week. I'll probably be able to float happily back across the Atlantic on my own steam after that!

Stratford, IIRC from very old memories, is Very Cool.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Very jealous anyway. I just know I'll totally miss Stratford for being too damn tired ^^

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Great-- if I can't get tix for Stratford, I'll see him in the West End. Just need to sell some blood... :)

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

You've got quite a Christmas of funness coming up haven't you? I'm soooooo tempted to go to London too. Even though I can't afford it.