Hamlet inhabits a panopticon of black mirrors the upper atmosphere is closed off by chandeliers that coldly illuminate the stiff rites of the Danish court. Robert Jones's design for Greg Doran's production eliminates such mystical altitudes. No, as it turns out: the poster tells a lie. Is Tennant intending to take us on another speculative voyage through the ether?
Kenneth Branagh watches the massing armies of Norway from a wintry summit in his film of the play Olivier too in his own film ponders suicide while poised on the edge of a precipice far above foaming breakers.
Mountains are where prophets go to confront God, and romantic Hamlets have often made a similar climb. It is an apt perch for a galactic traveller like Dr Who, although Tennant has actually stepped into Caspar David Friedrich's painting The Wanderer Above the Mists. O n the poster for the RSC's new Hamlet, David Tennant bestrides a mountain peak, surveying infinity from his eyrie atop a muffling ocean of fog.
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