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I think that might have been a licensing issue, a sense that DC Comics might not allow the Royal Shakespeare Company to do that. But also I think Greg has a sort of radar for how things might slightly overwhelm. He was worried it would become the Superman Hamlet, that critics looking for a sort of lazy headline might slap that over it if it was too obvious, if it was too iconic and recognisable.
#rsc hamlet#hamlet#david tennant#gregory doran#william shakespeare#david tennant remembers... hamlet#dtennantedit#dtedit#original#*gifs#where were the critics when superman benedick debuted
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apparently at the Greg Doran Shakespeare event David said Tony Baddingham is an Iago and I think I need to lie down
#david tennant#Tony baddingham#rivals#othello#iago#shakespeare#Gregory doran#that's EXACTLY what he is
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Love's Labour's Lost (dir. Gregory Doran, 2008)
Happy birthday to the bard!
#—︎ my posts 💭#came across this picture while doing research for a project for class today and had to share#shakespeare#love’s labour’s lost#gregory doran#david tennant#royal shakespeare company#rsc#theatre
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David Tennant to discuss Shakespeare at special event
David Tennant will sit down with former Royal Shakespeare Company lead Greg Doran to discuss the work of the Bard at a special event in London next month. Continue reading David Tennant to discuss Shakespeare at special event
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At the heart of the initiative is the three-part documentary series for BBC Two and iPlayer titled Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius, featuring contributions from Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Adrian Lester, Lolita Chakrabarti, Martin Freeman and Jessie Buckley, alongside academics and writers including James Shapiro, Jeanette Winterson, Lucy Jago, Jeremy O’Harris and Ewan Fernie.
The documentary series will be made available from 8 November at 9pm.
A whole host of archived productions and Shakespeare-based films will be released across October and November to celebrate the contributions made by the First Folio.
There will also be specially created new introductions for many of these, featuring David Tennant on Hamlet, Richard Eyre on King Lear, Janet Suzman on Wars of the Roses, Gregory Doran on the Shakespeare Gala from the RSC, Russell T Davies on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mirren on As You Like It, Hugh Quarshie on Othello, Steven Berkoff on Hamlet at Elsinore, Simon Russell Beale on The Hollow Crown, and Ian McKellen on All is True.
#simon russell beale#shakespeare#first folio#the hollow crown#judi dench#ian mckellen#david tennant#gregory doran#richard eyre#helen mirren#brian cox#adrian lester#lolita chakrabarti#tv#2023
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greg doran writing in his book "but then we opened and my as you like it was definitely not how they liked it"
#'the critics gave it a resounding thumbs down' LMFSOJDFOOAKWKFSOJAJDSOSJS#😭😭😭 SORRY THAT HAPPENED TO YOU DUDE#as you like it#gregory doran#ws
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Link to David Tennant and Gregory Doran's lockdown conversation about Shakespeare
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Which productions is he proudest of? He hesitates before offering: Hamlet (2008) with Tennant, adding that it “landed”. In a phone conversation with Tennant, I ask what he remembers about it and he says: “I was terrified, but having Greg there, you always felt safe. He knew how these plays worked. The first thing we talked about was that Hamlet would be a thriller. The challenge – with arguably the most well-known play in theatre – was to see if we could pull off the trick of making the audience feel they did not know what was coming next.”
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Doran struggles to define his “process”, but one thing is crucial: he skips the traditional read-through on the first day of rehearsals. Instead, the cast spend days working through Shakespeare line by line: “There are a few rules: no one can read their own parts or comment on the interpretation of their own characters.” It is a great way to encourage collective responsibility for a production. He believes a director should not get between play and audience. This might involve “not knowing but exploring, trusting the play will reveal itself”. You need to “love the language. It’s a craft that doesn’t necessarily come naturally: you need to work at it”.
#gregory doran#royal shakespeare company#william shakespeare#antony sher#stage#rehearsal#read through#david tennant#hamlet#greg doran
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Not Greg Doran calling Arthur’s Richard “a dark angel” in his book.
A dark angel.
A dark angel.
#brb sobbing#arthur hughes#gregory doran#*theater#richard iii#my tbr has really took a kick in the nuts#I shouldn’t have flipped through that damn book#🖤🐗#arthuuuuuuuur
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Title: Hamlet
Rating: PG
Director: Gregory Doran
Cast: David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, Penny Downie, Oliver Ford Davies, Mariah Gale, Edward Bennett, Peter de Jersey, Sam Alexander, Tom Davey, Mark Hadfield, John Woodvine, Ryan Gage, Jim Hooper, Samuel Dutton, David Ajala
Release year: 2009
Genres: drama
Blurb: A prince is visited by his father's ghost, with orders to avenge his murder by killing his usurper uncle.
#hamlet#pg#gregory doran#david tennant#patrick stewart#penny downie#oliver ford davies#mariah gale#2009#drama
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Imogen That!
CYMBELINE Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Wednesday 10th May 2023 Greg Doran bows out of his tenure as Artistic Director of the RSC with this production of one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known plays. Set vaguely during the era of the Romans invading Britain, this play sees Shakespeare rounding up all his favourite tropes and packaging them in a dark and funny fairy tale. These…
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#Alexandra Gilbreath#Amber James#Christian Patterson#Conor Glean#Cymbeline#Daf Thomas#Ed Sayer#Gregory Doran#Jamie Wilkes#Matt Daw#Paul Englishby#Peter de Jersey#review#Royal Shakespeare Theatre#RSC#Scott Gutteridge#Stephen Brimson Lewis#Stratford upon Avon#William Shakespeare
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i still don't like troilus and cressida
#i started watching gregory doran's rsc staging of it bc i was curious#like i've heard that that adaptation is good but then i start watching it and i'm like oh yup it's still troilus and cressida#troilusand cressida is what people who dont have any desire to read shakespeare assume reading shakespeare is like#text post#the scene where pandarus is describing troilus' chin hairs is genuinely gross to me#like it's one of the most vivid and memorable moments of the play bc of just how disgusted i was#and im watching it being acted and im like oh yup no one can make this like... good. to me#a shame#maybe it will get better i mean the staging looks exciting#but still it's just troilus and cressida it's JUST troilus and cressida
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so yeah I was doing a bit of research and-
...?! I'm followed by David Tennant and Michael Sheen everywhere I go
#not that im complaining#look at this gorgeous#also where can i watch love's labour lost Gregory Doran production#2008
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David Tennant as Richard II RICHARD II (2013) dir. Gregory Doran
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hamlet (2009) dir. gregory doran
#hamlet#shakespeare#william shakespeare#dark academia#david tennant#film#movies#cinema#cinematography#screencaps#film stills#hamlet 2009#my posts
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My evening...
(For those who don't know, David Tennant did an episode of Who Do You Think You Are where he held a skull and then Gregory Doran, the director, texted him saying "I just saw your audition for Hamlet")
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