{"id":9258,"date":"2017-03-08T15:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T15:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/after-rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-is-daniel-radcliffe-ready-for-hamlet\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T15:16:38","slug":"after-rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-is-daniel-radcliffe-ready-for-hamlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/after-rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-is-daniel-radcliffe-ready-for-hamlet\/","title":{"rendered":"After Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is Daniel Radcliffe ready for Hamlet?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"JoshuaImage copyright Manuel Harlan
Image caption Joshua McGuire and Daniel Radcliffe in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Daniel Radcliffe says he is really keen to be in a Shakespeare play - although he admits he's no expert on the Bard.<\/p>\n

The Harry Potter star has been praised for his latest role in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at London's Old Vic.<\/p>\n

Tom Stoppard's comedy, first performed in 1966, centres around two minor characters from Hamlet.<\/p>\n

"My knowledge of Shakespeare is pretty limited," Radcliffe told the BBC after Tuesday's opening night. <\/p>\n

"In this company, we've been talking about Hamlet a lot. And I am by far one of the least educated people on Shakespeare and Hamlet."<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old actor said he didn't want to tackle a Shakespearean role for the sake of it. <\/p>\n

"I never want to be feeling like I want to do that role so I can tick it off a list.<\/p>\n

Image copyright Manuel Harlan <\/figure>\n

"There has to be something about the role or production that feels vital, that I feel I could bring something to. <\/p>\n

"With Hamlet, there's a part of me that says I've seen Jude Law and Ben Whishaw do this and they were great. I don't know what I would bring to it."<\/p>\n

He added with a laugh: "You can throw this quote back at me in a few years when I'm playing Hamlet!"<\/p>\n

Radcliffe's previous stage plays include Equus, Privacy and The Cripple of Inishmaan. He has also appeared in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a musical. <\/p>\n

In his latest play he plays Rosencrantz opposite Joshua McGuire's Guildenstern, with David Haig on scene-stealing form as The Player.<\/p>\n

Directed by David Leveaux, the production comes 50 years after its Old Vic premiere.<\/p>\n

Here's how it went down with the critics. <\/p>\n

The Guardian's Michael Billington said: "The cheering fact is that this is a young man's play that still seems sprightly, invigorating and even moving in its preoccupation with the inevitability of death.<\/p>\n

"Even if the action briefly stalls in the final third, Leveaux's production keeps the momentum going."<\/p>\n

Image copyright Manuel Harlan <\/figure>\n

Writing in The Telegraph, Dominic Cavendish said: "The pacing is fleet, the timing slick, and memorable moments are in sufficiently plentiful supply."<\/p>\n

He awarded the production four stars, adding: "In the wrong hands, the combination of existential angst and in-jokiness could become tedious. <\/p>\n

"But Leveaux's cast serve the combination of high-brow antics and music-hall larks, the nods to Beckett, the hints of Beyond the Fringe brilliantly."<\/p>\n

Image copyright Manuel Harlan <\/figure>\n

The Daily Mail's Quentin Letts praised Radcliffe's performance but was less keen on the play as a whole, awarding the production three stars.<\/p>\n

"[Radcliffe] is game to try to escape type-casting by throwing himself into this quasi-Beckett absurdism," he writes.<\/p>\n

"He is a tidy little stage performer, light on his feet, the voice fluting but clear."<\/p>\n

But, he noted, some Harry Potter fans who have bought tickets may struggle with the play as a whole.<\/p>\n

Ann Treneman also praised Radcliffe in her four star review for The Times.<\/p>\n

"It's a joy to report that Daniel Radcliffe plays Rosencrantz with all the confidence of a man who has no idea who he is," she said.<\/p>\n

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is at the Old Vic until 29 April. <\/p>\n

Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image copyright Manuel HarlanImage caption Joshua McGuire and Daniel Radcliffe in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Daniel Radcliffe says he is really keen to be in a Shakespeare play -<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}