#tbh this gives some more context to david talking abt being curled into a ball in his dressing room on opening night of hamlet 😭😭😭

[aq2003]

I think I remember the review your anon mentioned and I think it was by the notorious snob Quentin Letts who was the DM theatre critic at the time. The thing is, I can't find that review in full, only quotes in the reviews roundups for Hamlet. Rather odd. DM still has his review for Jude Law's Hamlet for instance, couple years later, but doesn't show Tennant.

Although it's possible that the diss about "Doctor Who in Hamlet" was not in the review (which is also negative), but in an article when the casting was just announced or the tickets frenzy started. I very well may be misremembering but I THINK RSC even had to issue a statement or something reminding ignorant snobs about Tennant's thatre credentials, because Letts' put-down was so rude and out of left field. But I can't find that either right now on my phone... Maybe all these are just memory tricks.

the rsc is so fucking real for this i would also want to shame this dumbass theater critic from the 2000s into deleting his articles for being rude and wrong about david tennant