Charlotte Higgins

David Tennant's Hamlet for the RSC, on film

Dispatches from the set of Hamlet, where David Tennant and the rest of the cast of the Royal Shakespeare Company's stage production have gathered together to film the show

The lovely John Wyver, of Illuminations Films (and occasionally and valued commenter on these blogs) is producing the filmed version of the RSC's Hamlet, starring David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, and directed by Gregory Doran. They are now about two-thirds of the way through an 18-day shoot and their progress is being charted day-by-day on John's blog, which I recommend to all fans of the production. They seem to be having to deal with a lot of rain and sun at the wrong times and the endless frustration of aeroplanes ruining exterior shoots. Today they are filming The Mousetrap scene, and doubtless John will report on that later.

I'm still sad no one filmed Michael Boyd's Histories... but I guess they didn't have a Famous Person in the cast... and it's eight plays' worth... and it would have been so expensive... but still