London museum will show filmed versions of major productions, including Ben Whishaw's 2004 Hamlet and Hackney Empire's 2009 panto
Critics dubbed it one of the best Hamlets of all time – and now theatre lovers will have the opportunity to compare Ben Whishaw's teenage Dane to the recent high-profile princes of David Tennant, Michael Sheen and Rory Kinnear.
The Victoria & Albert museum will screen Trevor Nunn's 2004 production for the Old Vic, which provided Whishaw his first role after drama school, as part of a series to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Video Archive of Performance.
Whishaw, who is soon to star in Rupert Goold's television version of Richard II for the BBC, was labelled "the most raw and vulnerable Hamlet I have ever seen" by The Telegraph's theatre critic, Charles Spencer. (Michael Billington, however, was less impressed, describing Whishaw's boy prince as "a scuttling, manic Danish Mr...
Critics dubbed it one of the best Hamlets of all time – and now theatre lovers will have the opportunity to compare Ben Whishaw's teenage Dane to the recent high-profile princes of David Tennant, Michael Sheen and Rory Kinnear.
The Victoria & Albert museum will screen Trevor Nunn's 2004 production for the Old Vic, which provided Whishaw his first role after drama school, as part of a series to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Video Archive of Performance.
Whishaw, who is soon to star in Rupert Goold's television version of Richard II for the BBC, was labelled "the most raw and vulnerable Hamlet I have ever seen" by The Telegraph's theatre critic, Charles Spencer. (Michael Billington, however, was less impressed, describing Whishaw's boy prince as "a scuttling, manic Danish Mr...
- 1/5/2012
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
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