Shakespeare

[SimonNZ]

Learning only now that there was a film of Hamlet starring Ian McKellen...as Hamlet.

And that it screened for only one night in UK cinemas - last Feb 27. And seemingly isn't going to get a one-off screening out here.

This is frustrating and absurd - I kinda-but-not-really get the National Theatre one-offs, but couldn't a McKellen Hamlet have justified a wider release and made some money?

*sigh*

[San Antone]

Learning only now that there was a film of Hamlet starring Ian McKellen...as Hamlet.

Isn't he kind of old for the role?

[SimonNZ]

Isn't he kind of old for the role?

Older than his mother, even.

(checking: yup, 18 years older than Jenny Seagrove playing Gertrude)

But its an interesting idea because suspending disbelief is all just a question of degrees.

[ando]

A Series of Headaches is a video from the London Review of Books following printer Nick Hand as he prints a page from the magazine using methods as close as he can get to those used to print the First Folio of Shakespeare plays. The page selected is an old LRB article about the First Folio by Michael Dobson. The video is made in conjunction with Folio400, a website dedicated to the printing of the First Folio.