Hamlet and the Royal Shakespeare Company
I have just returned from a day in Stratford-upon-Avon seeing Hamlet - it was amazing! It was being staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and David Tennant (the current Dr Who) played a wonderfully mad and sarcastically cynical Hamlet while a very villainous Claudius was played by Patrick Stewart (of Star Trek and X Men fame among others). It was completely brilliant and by far the best staging of any Shakespeare play I have ever seen. Tennant is an incredibly talented actor and the whole play had a slightly more dark humour feel to it, which I loved.
We travelled up to Stratford very early this morning (early enough that most of us slept on the train - except for me pestering Imran with questions about where we were). We had a leisurely lunch by the Avon, where people were dragon-boating badly, and then headed to the Hamlet matinee. After a quick drink at a very quaint thatch-roofed pub, we jumped back on the train and had another 2 and a half hour trip back to London. The travel time was definitely worth it though! We had a fantastic time just relaxing and enjoying a reasonably nice Autumn day. It was really nice!
I really do love days like today, they make the less good days a lot more worthwhile.
