Overaught

Elsewhere I've been catching up on my Shakespeare collection lately which generally means lots of overaught acting in television studios with world famous film actors when they were still and only working the theatre. Is that really Ben Kingsley pointing manically at Patrick Stewart (both with hair) in Trevor Nunn's ITV broadcast RSC production of Anthony and Cleopatra from the late-seventies? After seeing Willard White looking uncomfortable playing Othello opposite (the not yet Sir) Ian McKellan's Iago I had to watch a dead cert and was pleased to see that Zeffirell's Hamlet was surprisingly good and worth writing about on The Hamlet Weblog.