Vox Hunt: Hot Ticket and Hamlet generally

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This is my most recent purchase and I've got to wait until next August before I can redeem it. But it was definitely worth getting the ticket early because David Tennant (Dr Who, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Casanova) is playing Hamlet and Jen and I will have front row seats!

Hamlet ticket

Hamlet is my favourite Shakespeare play and it will be refreshing to see quite a young actor in the role. I've always felt the lead should be played by someone youthful so as to best represent the turmoil and indecision that inevitably comes with someone of a young age having to deal with such dramatic events in their life. There is also an element of 'me, me, me' in the character which is tinged with teen.
But this isn't the only production of Hamlet planned for the big stage. As Tennant finishes his run, Jude Law (Closer, Talented Mr Ripley) takes up the reins for the Donmar Warehouse in London.

David "Dr Who" Tennant

Now Jude Law has never struck me as a particularly outstanding actor. Indeed one colleague, and fellow lover of the stage, commented on hearing the news that Law was play the great Dane: "You might as well throw a tea bag on the stage".

Jude "tabloid fodder" Law

I've subsequently heard that Law is a fairly accomplished stage actor and has been treading the boards since his teens. It will be 2009 until I get to decide which is the closest assessment because I certainly plan on going to see it, if only to compare the two performances.