This week we had the great Hamlet bout. Could Jude Law be as good in the role as David Tennant was in last year's Royal Shakespeare Company production? And the news from the West End ringside, so far as I'm concerned, is that it's a squeaker - and that Mr Law is just ahead on points.
That said, the Wyndham's production is not a patch on the RSC show in several other respects. The company has been strangely miscast. Its Claudius, Ophelia, Laertes, Horatio, Gertrude and ghost are all disappointing. Ron Cook's Polonius is an almost embarrassingly bad stab at the part. He is more like a subservient waiter than a fruity old courtier.
That said, the Wyndham's production is not a patch on the RSC show in several other respects. The company has been strangely miscast. Its Claudius, Ophelia, Laertes, Horatio, Gertrude and ghost are all disappointing. Ron Cook's Polonius is an almost embarrassingly bad stab at the part. He is more like a subservient waiter than a fruity old courtier.
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