The Road to Hamlet: London Underground & Public Transport

Now that you’ve arrived in the Capital, what’s the best way to get around? There are several choices, other than your own two feet! Here’s your first PRO TIP: carry a paper map, just in case. Batteries on phones will die, or you may run out of data allowance, or you may just want to […]

Hamlet (2009) with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart

I am still trying to get my head around Hamlet. And this DVD has helped A LOT. This is a filmed version of David Tennant’s Hamlet featuring Patrick Stewart and it is glorious! You can buy it here on Amazon UK or here on Amazon US. I think many of us are very fond of […]

Desplat scores a perfect ten….

ALEXANDRE Desplat talks of flying when he composes. And watching him conduct the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican last week, there were around 1,000 other people flying with him. I’ve never seen an orchestra perform before, shameful really, but true. I was excited to not only see how an orchestra worked in full motion, […]

Codebreaker: The Concert

Recently, it was reported on Twitter that Benedict had attended the world premiere of James McCarthy’s “Codebreaker” piece at the Barbican. Considering the piece was in honor of Alan Turing, and Benedict is playing the mathematician in The Imitation Game, his spot in the audience shouldn’t have come as a surprise (or at least it wasn’t […]