An article by Michael Billington discussing the prospects for David Tennant's appearance as Hamlet at Stratford-upon-Avon (The role to die for, G2, page 23, July 31) invited readers to turn to a gallery of portraits of Tennant in action on guardian.co.uk/culture. One of these showed Tennant wearing a parka, and the caption suggested that this was "almost certainly" the first time a Hamlet had appeared on stage clad in this fashion. Not so, says the actor Sam West: he did so in a production by Steven Pimlott in 2001.
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The gallery referred to in the article above [link]
David-Tennant.com [link]
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The 1st time I saw those images of David Tennant wearing the parker and hat, my thoughts were O.M.G he's copied Samuel West's Hamlet! I don't blame Sam speaking up about it. Good on him for doing so.
my reaction to that article was squeeing because it's about three fabulous people - Sam, David and Shakespeare!
Sam's done a podcast (2 parts) over at the Almeida theatre website. It's on the Waste page.
Thanks for the update - the podcast is very interesting.
and the behind the scenes pictures are lovely :)
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