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Ever since seeing a clip of Plummer's Hamlet narrating the players as part of the Playing The Dane documentary broadcast during the Bard on the Box season in 1994, I've been more than intrigued by Hamlet at Elsinore in which BBC and Danish Radio co-produced an outside broadcast recording of the play at Kronborg Castle in"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8840539524053152783\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=8840539524053152783\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/8840539524053152783"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/8840539524053152783"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/37-christopher-plummer.html","title":"37 Christopher Plummer"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-bQb1WS5FkQQ\/VzxslJW026I\/AAAAAAAAL7o\/7h2cKsrLakM4l4Qh7uI6lKSeijRF3cKGwCLcB\/s72-c\/Capture.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-6101082059506970520"},"published":{"$t":"2014-10-06T21:42:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-10-06T21:50:06.453+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"2014"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"zach appelman"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"36 Zach Appelman"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Zach Appelman.\nDirected by Robert Richmond.\n\nThe Shakespeare Folger Library, in conjunction with Simon \u0026 Schuster have begun a new series of full text audio recordings of the plays based on their own texts and inevitably, probably, Hamlet is amongst the first off the battlements.  The packaging is pretty basic, a cardboard box with the cds in a similarly cardboard inlay with "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6101082059506970520\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=6101082059506970520\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/6101082059506970520"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/6101082059506970520"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/36-zach-appelman.html","title":"36 Zach Appelman"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ouFKFgEWIOI\/VDL-I237RjI\/AAAAAAAAIJg\/96PUZE1T5p8\/s72-c\/zach.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-8606485943069010891"},"published":{"$t":"2012-12-15T23:05:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-12-15T23:15:31.000+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"BBC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"john duttine"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"35 John Duttine"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by John Duttine.\nDirected by Gordon House.\n\nThe BBC’s Research and Development group has built a prototype which puts the BBC World Service on the web, making over seventy thousand programmes from the past sixty years available to listen to here.  Still in closed testing, I’ve been lucky enough to have been given access (which might be able to ask for too via the details on their "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8606485943069010891\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=8606485943069010891\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/8606485943069010891"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/8606485943069010891"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/35-john-duttine.html","title":"35 John Duttine"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-UJkx2NqdHlk\/UMz9yM3xZcI\/AAAAAAAAE-8\/rQXEnWTPxdk\/s72-c\/duttine.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-1232108961743253937"},"published":{"$t":"2012-10-08T18:32:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-05-09T16:59:38.885+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"derek jacobi"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"patrick wymark"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"spotify"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"34 Anthony White"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nHamlet played by Anthony White.\nDirected by George Rylands.\n\nIn the late 50s and early 1960s, under the auspices of the British Council to increase understanding of Shakespeare abroad, the Marlowe Dramatic Society, a theatre group for Cambridge University students aided by professional actors, set about recording all of Shakespeare’s plays for release by the Argo label initially on vinyl (in "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1232108961743253937\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=1232108961743253937\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/1232108961743253937"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/1232108961743253937"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/34-patrick-wymark.html","title":"34 Anthony White"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-4299955048314794855"},"published":{"$t":"2011-09-06T18:24:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-09-06T18:25:57.499+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Innokenty Smoktunovsky"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"33 Innokenty Smoktunovsky"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Innokenty Smoktunovsky.\nDirected by Grigori Kozintsev.\n\nWhen I began counting Hamlets, I took the decision that a production only counted, as per the about page, if “I've seen or heard it from start to finish through a whole production”.  The other more secret rule was that it had to be based on Shakespeare’s text and follow the same plot, which led to the offshoot list “Almost"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4299955048314794855\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=4299955048314794855\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4299955048314794855"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4299955048314794855"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/33-innokenty-smoktunovsky.html","title":"33 Innokenty Smoktunovsky"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-QBhnqPVDpaM\/TmZUC0l4UfI\/AAAAAAAABwM\/gUVqeWqfJes\/s72-c\/hamlet.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-5702072237688820374"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-18T14:51:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-10T21:46:57.285+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"john gielgud"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"richard burton"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"32 Richard Burton"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Richard Burton.\nDirected by John Gielgud.\n\nIt’s 1995, I’m in my first flush of college in Leeds and I’m standing in HMV considering a VHS boxset of this Richard Burton’s Hamlet just as I have on a few previous Saturdays.  Once again I turn it over and look at the price, £19.99 and consider whether it is the worth my weekly food budget and once again I put it back with a sigh.  "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5702072237688820374\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=5702072237688820374\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/5702072237688820374"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/5702072237688820374"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/32-richard-burton.html","title":"32 Richard Burton"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-895CM4guF3Y\/TdPI4ZGSXXI\/AAAAAAAABng\/9nd96dF504s\/s72-c\/burton.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-4573515761279472929"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-05T00:41:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-04T17:46:44.320+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"adrian lester"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"31 Adrian Lester"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Adrian Lester.\nDirected by Peter Brook.\n\nSometimes when I sit down to record my impressions of these productions, I feel as though its my duty to give them good record because often there isn’t another record at least not one as detailed as I attempt.  On this occasions, I’m trumped by Michael Billington of The Guardian, whose 2000 review of the original production at the "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4573515761279472929\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=4573515761279472929\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4573515761279472929"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4573515761279472929"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/31-adrian-lester.html","title":"31 Adrian Lester"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-w0QxFf7B91Q\/TXEjh9AiAdI\/AAAAAAAABck\/1u3aYJxNLF0\/s72-c\/lester.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-2948008924036984754"},"published":{"$t":"2010-07-18T12:11:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T15:54:19.960+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"campbell scott."},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"30 Campbell Scott"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nHamlet played by Campbell Scott.\nDirected by Campbell Scott and Eric Simonson.\n\nThe Hallmark Hamlet.  Though I see from looking at the website, the actual channel in the UK has now become the “home” of reruns and first runs of the likes of legal drama Damages and legal drama Law \u0026 Order, my actual experience of Hallmark productions are the fantasy and fairy tale adaptations and “true” life "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2948008924036984754\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=2948008924036984754\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/2948008924036984754"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/2948008924036984754"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/thirty.html","title":"30 Campbell Scott"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/TELciAQqpuI\/AAAAAAAABUY\/RlnvG7dDYKM\/s72-c\/scott.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-1049884721957705282"},"published":{"$t":"2010-06-19T11:32:00.006+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T15:54:22.884+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"29 Anton Lesser"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Anton Lesser.\nDirected by Neville Jason.\n\nSince brevity is supposed to be the soul of wit, I will be brief.  As well has having the budget classical music market sealed up, Naxos also have a list of drama audiobooks that covers most of the canon and that includes two different Hamlets – the early Gielgud (coming soon) and this 1997 recording with Anton Lesser in the title role."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1049884721957705282\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=1049884721957705282\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/1049884721957705282"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/1049884721957705282"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/twenty-nine.html","title":"29 Anton Lesser"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/TB3vVBxzbzI\/AAAAAAAABSw\/czDGf9ty2Qo\/s72-c\/lesser.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-8688377218212469989"},"published":{"$t":"2010-06-15T12:14:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T15:54:25.901+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"john gielgud"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"28 John Gielgud"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by John Gielgud.\nDirected by Michael Benthall *.\n\nListen to enough audio Hamlets in quick succession, as I have in this past week or so, despite the decades between recordings, and indeed despite the subtle differences in performance amongst the primary cast members, certain patterns, presumably due to theatrical tradition do emerge.  Osric is usually effeminate.  The Gravediggers"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8688377218212469989\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=8688377218212469989\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/8688377218212469989"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/8688377218212469989"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/twenty-eight.html","title":"28 John Gielgud"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/TBddbAGOswI\/AAAAAAAABSY\/9QyWr8eCKCU\/s72-c\/gielgud.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-2054767277480839307"},"published":{"$t":"2010-06-14T09:45:00.005+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-07-01T11:58:48.749+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"derek jacobi"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"john gielgud"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"judi dench"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kenneth branagh"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"27 Kenneth Branagh"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Kenneth Branagh.\nDirected by Kenneth Branagh and Glyn Dearman.\n\nWhen a radio production opens with the sound of Francisco pissing up a wall, giving his line “For this relief much thanks” a double meaning, you know you’re going to be listening to something rather special.  A 1992 recording for Radio 3 by The Renaissance Theatre Company of a version of the 1988 staging, directed "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2054767277480839307\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=2054767277480839307\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/2054767277480839307"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/2054767277480839307"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/twenty-seven.html","title":"27 Kenneth Branagh"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/TBXqbXMh1gI\/AAAAAAAABSQ\/HVEId4sjnIg\/s72-c\/branagh2.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-8722376161606985194"},"published":{"$t":"2010-06-13T15:04:00.006+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T15:54:32.362+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"derek jacobi"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"26 Derek Jacobi"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Derek Jacobi.\nDirected by Toby Robertson.\n\nI’m signed up to the local Freecycle service and a couple of years ago someone was giving away bags and bags of old theatre programmes and posters.  I had thought before visiting that they would be for the local area but they turned out to be from the West End and outer London and to my great pleasure for this legendary Old Vic "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8722376161606985194\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=8722376161606985194\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/8722376161606985194"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/8722376161606985194"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/twenty-six.html","title":"26 Derek Jacobi"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4062\/4695603929_5262f1328f_t.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-5349905359375046309"},"published":{"$t":"2010-06-11T15:51:00.013+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T15:54:36.170+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"brad yates"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"news"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"25 Brad Yates"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Brad Yates.\nDirected by Ned Rogers.\n\nI’ve talked before about the methods that have been used to try and introduce Hamlet to audiences which might not necessarily have been in contact with the play or Shakespeare or even theatre before.  From my own experience, my preference would be to offer up a very good production – the RSC with Tennant, the Branagh film and throw the "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5349905359375046309\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=5349905359375046309\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/5349905359375046309"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/5349905359375046309"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/twenty-five.html","title":"25 Brad Yates"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/TBJFYUl_nmI\/AAAAAAAABRQ\/gf-hVGDdWno\/s72-c\/yates.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-5390242215770533886"},"published":{"$t":"2010-06-10T17:14:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T15:54:40.265+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ronald pickup"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"24 Ronald Pickup"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Ronald Pickup.\nDirected by John Tydeman.\n\nOn sale in many good and some bad charity shops and ebay a lot, this BBC Radio Collection release with Ronald Pickup in the title role is something of a mystery.  It must have been broadcast on Radio’s Three or Four at some point in the 1980s – © 1988 BBC Enterprises Ltd is written on the back of the inlay – but after hunting about "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5390242215770533886\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=5390242215770533886\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/5390242215770533886"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/5390242215770533886"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/twenty-four.html","title":"24 Ronald Pickup"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/TBEO36Ka0pI\/AAAAAAAABRI\/sr8t1nBOMVk\/s72-c\/pickup.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-4123629632076401617"},"published":{"$t":"2010-06-08T11:52:00.006+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T15:54:48.375+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"david tennant"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"royal shakespeare company"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"23 David Tennant"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by David Tennant.\nDirected by Gregory Doran.\n\nWhen I first heard about this production, I almost exploded.  Already some way into this project, the idea that the then star of my favourite franchise would be appearing in my first or second favourite Shakespeare play (yes, still osculating with Measure for Measure) was almost too heady to contemplate.  Yet somehow, because of this "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4123629632076401617\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=4123629632076401617\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4123629632076401617"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4123629632076401617"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/twenty-three.html","title":"23 David Tennant"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-402690361995081278"},"published":{"$t":"2009-10-24T09:16:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-03-11T21:25:56.164+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kenneth branagh"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"22 Kenneth Branagh"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Kenneth Branagh\nDirected by Kenneth Branagh\n\nOne of my favourite moments in Hamlet as directed by Mr Kenneth Branagh is the reintroduction of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Timothy Spall and Reese Dinsdale, hanging from the side of a steam engine as it sweeps through the Elsinore snow to be greeted by their friend at the platform.  For two characters usually at the bottom of the"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/402690361995081278\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=402690361995081278\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/402690361995081278"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/402690361995081278"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/twenty-two.html","title":"22 Kenneth Branagh"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/SuHKUFtVhmI\/AAAAAAAAA_g\/ZGVSWlSinmg\/s72-c\/branagh.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-6630482969627763207"},"published":{"$t":"2009-10-16T07:08:00.006+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:19:39.263+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"laurence olivier."},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"21 Laurence Olivier"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Laurence Olivier.\nDirected by Laurence Olivier.\n\nOlivier’s Hamlet is one of those films which is impossible to approach without a certain level of trepidation, which accounts for why it has taken until now for me to do such an approach (it took this week’s competition to give me the relevant nudge).  Like Kean, Kemble, Irving and Gielgud before him and Jacobi, Branagh and (it "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6630482969627763207\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=6630482969627763207\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/6630482969627763207"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/6630482969627763207"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/twenty-one.html","title":"21 Laurence Olivier"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/Ss0D4EH4hTI\/AAAAAAAAA-w\/BW53pI5YyfM\/s72-c\/olivier.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-1109649333322689394"},"published":{"$t":"2009-08-19T14:56:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:19:33.798+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lodestar theatre company"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"st george's hall"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"20 Stephen Fletcher"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Stephen Fletcher.\nDirected by Max Rubin.\n\nBefore I start the review proper, I should mention that my opinion is probably affected by the fact that I spent most of the show distracted by a bored ten year old sitting next to me who'd been dragged along by his parents and older brother.  Out of the corner of my eye I constantly saw him rocking about, sighing, swinging his legs, "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1109649333322689394\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=1109649333322689394\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/1109649333322689394"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/1109649333322689394"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/twenty.html","title":"20 Stephen Fletcher"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/SowFbDQgXUI\/AAAAAAAAA30\/GbnRLeuQ-mc\/s72-c\/fletcher.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-4364430957193502374"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-14T15:08:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:19:28.048+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"BBC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"michael sheen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"19 Michael Sheen"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nMichael Sheen as Hamlet\nDirected by Jeremy Mortimer\n\nAt the dawn of the new millennium, the BBC decided to commemorate the occasion with a series of radio productions of Shakespeare's plays.  Some were critical of the project since the bard has hardly been ignored by Radio 3 and in the announcement there didn’t seem to be anything to suggest that these would be doing anything too out of the "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4364430957193502374\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=4364430957193502374\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4364430957193502374"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4364430957193502374"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/nineteen.html","title":"19 Michael Sheen"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/SFPWkI5QnBI\/AAAAAAAAATw\/mxpIIRdlmWw\/s72-c\/19.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-7882741418087509509"},"published":{"$t":"2007-10-11T10:59:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:19:19.994+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"orson welles"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"18 Orson Welles"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Orson Welles.\nDirected by Orson Welles.\n\nOrson Welles was one of the great Shakespeareans of the 20th Century.  His book Everybody’s Shakespeare examined the potential the bard had to reach the popular audience and he strove for much of his life to produce some great interpretations of the canon and sometimes succeeded.  In the end, only his Macbeth would have a relatively "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7882741418087509509\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=7882741418087509509\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/7882741418087509509"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/7882741418087509509"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/eighteen.html","title":"18 Orson Welles"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/Rw30fu6adXI\/AAAAAAAAALo\/62T3M14GkP4\/s72-c\/welles.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-2302474012865079626"},"published":{"$t":"2007-10-09T16:18:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:21:09.438+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tony meyer"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"17 Tony Meyer"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by David Meyer.\nHamlet played by Tony Meyer.\nDirected by Celestino Coronada.\n\nBalanced precariously between art piece and feature film, Celestino Coronada’s Hamlet is not for the faint hearted.  Sometimes described as ‘The Naked Hamlet’, it cuts the poetry to ribbons has little regard for the story (Ophelia’s madness is shown even though Polonius’s death isn’t) and instead sets "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2302474012865079626\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=2302474012865079626\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/2302474012865079626"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/2302474012865079626"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/17-tony-meyer.html","title":"17 Tony Meyer"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/RwuR9O6adWI\/AAAAAAAAALg\/x2VqsjB64UQ\/s72-c\/meyer.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-52988050206367320"},"published":{"$t":"2007-10-09T15:33:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:21:05.689+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"david meyer"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"16 David Meyer"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by David Meyer.\nHamlet played by Tony Meyer.\nDirected by Celestino Coronada.\n\nBalanced precariously between art piece and feature film, Celestino Coronada’s Hamlet is not for the faint hearted.  Sometimes described as ‘The Naked Hamlet’, it cuts the poetry to ribbons has little regard for the story (Ophelia’s madness is shown even though Polonius’s death isn’t) and instead sets "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/52988050206367320\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=52988050206367320\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/52988050206367320"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/52988050206367320"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/sixteen-seventeen.html","title":"16 David Meyer"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/RwuR9O6adWI\/AAAAAAAAALg\/x2VqsjB64UQ\/s72-c\/meyer.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-7228193120226591227"},"published":{"$t":"2007-10-08T11:47:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:17:55.061+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"john dougall"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"15 John Dougall"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by John Dougall.\nDirected by Eoin O'Callaghan.\n\nSo from Hamlet in an hour, to half an hour and now a production in half even than that time.  Tom Stoppard’s Fifteen Minute Hamlet is excerpted from his longer 1976 play, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth, the former section of which is an intellectual exercise in demonstrating the schism between words and context.  Three school "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7228193120226591227\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=7228193120226591227\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/7228193120226591227"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/7228193120226591227"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/fifteen.html","title":"15 John Dougall"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/RwoLEe6adVI\/AAAAAAAAALY\/u-r9hdKQRHM\/s72-c\/dougall.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-3999571140502467725"},"published":{"$t":"2007-06-10T21:51:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:17:45.863+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nicholas farrell"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"14 Nicholas Farrell"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Nicholas Farrell\nDirected by Natalia Orlova\n\nProduced as part of the BBC's Shakespeare: The Animated Tales project, this Hamlet manages to lucidly abbreviate the story to just over twenty-five minutes employing voiceover and impressionistic imagary from the Russian animators of Christmas films who use paint on glass to create the world.  Bravely, screenwriter Leon Garfield only"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3999571140502467725\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=3999571140502467725\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/3999571140502467725"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/3999571140502467725"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/fourteen.html","title":"14 Nicholas Farrell"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/RmxmG0dKMYI\/AAAAAAAAAI0\/1QxrmnJls00\/s72-c\/farrell.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-1209638388648806457"},"published":{"$t":"2007-06-06T22:00:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-12-07T10:04:31.282+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"derek jacobi"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"13 Derek Jacobi"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Derek Jacobi\nDirected by Rodney Bennett\n\nI knew when I began this process that there would be certain 'tentpole' productions, so renowned that I'd want to save them and relish them.  The BBC Shakespeare Hamlet is one such presentation with its central performance from Derek Jacobi, Patrick Stewart's Claudius and Claire Bloom's Gertrude.  But for this fanboy there's an extra "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1209638388648806457\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=1209638388648806457\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/1209638388648806457"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/1209638388648806457"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/thirteen.html","title":"13 Derek Jacobi"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/RmciA0dKMXI\/AAAAAAAAAIs\/uy5Ed3mZe9s\/s72-c\/jacobi.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-4983802266596418780"},"published":{"$t":"2007-05-23T21:21:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:17:23.711+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marc culwick"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"12 Marc Culwick"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Marc Culwick\nDirected by Michael Croft\n\nSurprisingly, the moment when I really began to understand what Shakespeare was trying to do wasn’t during Hamlet but Measure for Measure.  I was watching the BBC television version from the eighties and it had reached the fourth scene of act two.  Angelo, a hitherto emotionless logical character (think Star Trek’s Spock in his bearded "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4983802266596418780\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=4983802266596418780\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4983802266596418780"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4983802266596418780"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/twelve.html","title":"12 Marc Culwick"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/RlSjSZ7sXYI\/AAAAAAAAAH4\/dfBlVXdbke4\/s72-c\/culwick.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-7752827235128103654"},"published":{"$t":"2007-05-18T20:30:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:17:15.439+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"carl wharton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ophelia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"11 Carl Wharton"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Carl Wharton\nDirected by Ian Karl Moore\n\nRegular readers might remember I wrote last year some time about meeting someone called Claire Jones on the bus and telling them how much I'd loved their portrayal of Ophelia in a production of Hamlet ten years before.  It was in a production by the Black Box Theatre Company at the Unity Theatre some time between 1997 and 1998.\n\nTo "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7752827235128103654\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=7752827235128103654\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/7752827235128103654"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/7752827235128103654"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/eleven.html","title":"11 Carl Wharton"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/Rk4Asp7sXXI\/AAAAAAAAAHw\/wcSL0c-6cTA\/s72-c\/blackbox.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-3624181258802158244"},"published":{"$t":"2007-04-26T21:35:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:16:53.630+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"natalie quatermass"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"10 Natalie Quatermass"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Natalie Quatermass.\nDirected by Dan Meigh \u0026 Iona Farley.  \nFights by Eleanor Stephens.\n\nTwice in the past couple of days in relation to this weblog and well, I suppose you could call it 'the project', people have asked me, 'Why Hamlet?'  In answering I repeated some of what I wrote in the introduction about the man who'd seen sixty-eight of them, remembering something about "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3624181258802158244\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=3624181258802158244\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/3624181258802158244"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/3624181258802158244"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/ten.html","title":"10 Natalie Quatermass"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/RjEO1llGb0I\/AAAAAAAAAHg\/vWcgsLF1SXY\/s72-c\/quatermass.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-4247718232170326461"},"published":{"$t":"2007-04-20T16:33:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:16:43.720+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"09 Merfyn Cave"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Merfyn Cave\nDirected by Mr Gleave\n\nIt's become apparent that if I'm going to reach my target I'm going to have to include Hamlets that I've already met, no matter how hazy my memory of them.  The first time I saw the play  produced was at my secondary school, the Blue Coat in Liverpool.  The programme which sits before me (illustrated above) doesn't say what date this was "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4247718232170326461\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=4247718232170326461\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4247718232170326461"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/4247718232170326461"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/nine.html","title":"09 Merfyn Cave"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/__CbsKKZ0o-8\/RijeQD4SqtI\/AAAAAAAAAHY\/WM7HoLdRztI\/s72-c\/blue.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-116829204961854109"},"published":{"$t":"2007-01-08T21:17:00.005+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-08T16:37:30.211+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"paul scofield"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"08 Paul Scofield"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Paul Scofield.\nDirected by Howard Sackler.\n\nWhat a chore.  This is the first time I've begun writing about an audio production whilst I'm still listening to it simply because I don't want to spend more time even thinking about it than the duration.  It's a shame, because it begins quite well with the atmospheric sound of waves as Horatio first hears of the ghostly reappearance "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/116829204961854109\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=116829204961854109\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/116829204961854109"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/116829204961854109"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/eight.html","title":"08 Paul Scofield"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-116111813045841253"},"published":{"$t":"2006-10-17T21:32:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:16:24.400+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kevin kline"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"07 Kevin Kline"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Kevin Kline\nDirected by Kevin Kline\n\nKevin Kline's production and performance was one of the key experiences I was looking forward to in this endeavor.  During the Hamlet documentary that inspired everything (mentioned in the introduction), Kline was one of the most lucid in regards to the effect the part has on an actor and the sheer endurance required in getting from the "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/116111813045841253\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=116111813045841253\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/116111813045841253"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/116111813045841253"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/seven.html","title":"07 Kevin Kline"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-115878901418715718"},"published":{"$t":"2006-09-20T22:37:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T16:16:15.910+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mel gibson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"06 Mel Gibson"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Mel Gibson.\nDirected by Franco Zeffirelli.\n\nA surprisingly enjoyable rendition of the play, Franco Zeffirelli's film is gloriously free and easy with the text.  It opens with the funeral of Hamlet Snr in which the young Dane is shown leaning over his father's coffin dropping in some of Claudius's pronouncement from Act I Scene II, dropping the first scene and appearance of the "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/115878901418715718\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=115878901418715718\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/115878901418715718"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/115878901418715718"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/six.html","title":"06 Mel Gibson"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-112100940803795855"},"published":{"$t":"2005-07-10T16:16:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T15:55:57.141+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"michael redgrave"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"05 Michael Redgrave"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Michael Redgrave\nDirected by Sir Michael Redgrave\n\nI've always imagined how Hamlet might sound if it was performed by the cast of the film Brief Encounter, all clipped English accents.  Well I can wonder no longer because here it is.  I don't know if Trevor Howard ever played the part, but Michael Redgrave is cut from the same jib, all freakish understatement.  You're waiting "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/112100940803795855\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=112100940803795855\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/112100940803795855"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/112100940803795855"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/five.html","title":"05 Michael Redgrave"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-111619980204573453"},"published":{"$t":"2005-05-16T00:16:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T15:55:30.503+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ethan hawke"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"04 Ethan Hawke"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Ethan Hawke\nDirected by Michael Almereyda\n\nWhen this version of the play was announced in the late nineties there was total apathy, especially from me.  What was the point in revisiting the work so close in time to Branagh's definitive version?  The answer was fairly obvious -- this was in the middle of the sudden craze for adaptations of Shakespeare plays for young people, "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/111619980204573453\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=111619980204573453\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/111619980204573453"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/111619980204573453"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/four.html","title":"04 Ethan Hawke"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-111463765534306927"},"published":{"$t":"2005-04-27T21:54:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T15:55:18.250+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"will houston"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"03 Will Houston"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Will Houston\nDirected by  Michael Mundell\n\nThis is the first time I've seen the 'To Be Or Not To Be' speech with Hamlet standing on the edge of a cliff thinking about jumping in.  At least I don't think I've seen it before.  But that reflects this production overall, a grab bag of moments which seem very familiar, and not just because it's an oft produced play.  Perhaps there "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/111463765534306927\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=111463765534306927\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/111463765534306927"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/111463765534306927"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/three.html","title":"03 Will Houston"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-111315097245097215"},"published":{"$t":"2005-04-10T17:22:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-29T15:55:09.898+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"simon russell beale"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"02 Simon Russell Beale"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Simon Russell Beale\nDirected by Clive Brill\n\nThere are generally three approaches to Shakespeare (and theatre for that matter) on audio -- recording the sound of a theatre production, creating a film without pictures, or producing a textual adaptation, in  which the performances take a back seat to the performances.  There is obviously some blurring of these approaches, but "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/111315097245097215\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=111315097245097215\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/111315097245097215"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/111315097245097215"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/two.html","title":"02 Simon Russell Beale"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10195862.post-111221921482437934"},"published":{"$t":"2005-03-30T22:33:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-01-26T09:29:39.896+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hamlet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nicole williamson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"playing the dane"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"01 Nicol Williamson"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nHamlet played by Nicol Williamson\nDirected by Tony Richardson\n\nThe opening moments in any production of Hamlet are critical because the audience, assuming they know the play fairly well, will already be asking the 'How are they going to do...' question. It's the ghost. Hamlet senior. What is he going to look like? In a film, it's an even bigger challenge, because some people watching might "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/111221921482437934\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=10195862\u0026postID=111221921482437934\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/111221921482437934"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/10195862\/posts\/default\/111221921482437934"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thehamletweblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/one.html","title":"01 Nicol Williamson"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Stuart Ian Burns"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18132101517832896837"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/profile5\/340\/96\/n604511976_6877.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});