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love in the time of living

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mostly doctor/donna with some other stuff sprinkled in.
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In which Catherine Tate has a particular problem with Shakespeare, and shocks everyone by admitting that she has never seen Star Wars, David Tennant has some embarrassing stories about meeting his idols, and a fabulous rant about Astrology, and they both agree that it is always unwise to read theatre reviews.

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Say what you want about the 2023 Shakespeare in The Park production of Hamlet, but the choices made in that play WORKED. Having Hamlet wear a black hoodie and camo pants and him dramatically putting his hood up when he was pissed off was inspired. Having Horatio video tape Claudius on an iPhone camera from the side of the stage during the play within the play was hilarious. Having the play within the play be a hip hop dance number that represented the murder!?! Fantastic. Having Ophelia be a singer before she went mad and having a beautiful voice that everyone loved to listen to and then seeing her singing get worse and worse as she got nearer to death?!?! Hamlet pulling out his iphone after killing Polonius to show his mom a picture of his dad compared to a picture of Claudius and angrily swiping back and forth between the two as he said “What judgement would step from this… to this?” The crowd fucking lost it every time. Horatio singing to Hamlet as he died made me fully sob every time. The way they did the ghost on stage was so chilling and I can’t even accurately describe it, you just had to be there. Hamlet being deeply exasperated the entire time was just perfect. Hamlet and Horatio had a secret handshake. Laertes inexplicably carried an acoustic guitar case for much of the play which was very funny but also hit you with the heartbreaking implication that he had used to play while Ophelia sang and he stopped carrying it after she died. It was peak teenage-angst-hamlet and it was so dear to me. PLEASE if anyone has a recording, send it to me.

OMG EVERYBODY LISTEN UP!!!

THEY'RE GOING TO BROADCAST THIS PRODUCTION ON PBC FOR FREE!! YOU CAN WATCH IT!! PLEASE DO!!!

Going to try to tag everybody who said they wanted to watch it in the notes:

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iamwestiec

Broadcast date: May 10th, 2024!!

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Donna: *about to leave for a few hours*

The Doctor on the verge of tears: *long dramatic speech about how Donna changed his life, saved him, made him a better man, rewrote his DNI, rewired his brain chemistry, imprinted on both of his hearts, and how her absence will break his  hearts and leave him in darkness and nothing is the same without her*

+ BONUS

@thehedgehoglet has it right. David did indeed hold both her hands during this scene.

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basmathgirl

@thegingergoddess found some behind the scenes pics of this

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