We’ve Got A Bone To Pick With You
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stop using a real skull in Hamlet as it is "too distracting for the audience". The use of Polish pianist Andre Tchaikovsky's skull had been kept a carefully guarded secret but leading man David Tennant disclosed that the skull was real and had belonged to a Shakespeare fan, who left his skull to the RSC in 1982.
FOOTNOTE: Dying shame.
7 comments:
Well, David Tennant is the Time lord Dr. Who, probably met the chap on hi travels.
A bit unsettling having such a recently deceased person's skull.
Plastic may be less of an problem for the actors!
If he just kept his mouth shut he would of been ahead of the game.
Wow! great interesting story!
I of course got this question correct on the esteemed Archie's quiz of the week- of course I missed 4 others BOOO BAH!!
What a loss.
What a shame, I rather like the idea of a famous pianist's brain pan being kept in circulation with all those great words spoken around it! Maybe I'll donate my skull to a shakesperean troupe :)
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