David Tennant's Hamlet Backlash

David Tennant will spend next's year's Doctor Who hiatus portraying Hamlet in the royal Shakespeare company production that will hit the West end. Doctor Who fans are notall that thrilled, but someone else higher up has been even more vocal about Tennant's taking on the role.

Sir Jonathan Miller, the theater director, has hit out at London theater producers for succumbing to "an obsession with celebrity" when casting West End plays, citing Tennant , who is to play Hamlet in a forthcoming Royal Shakespeare Company production, and Jude Law, as examples. Miller's criticisms come after two of his productions for the National Theatre, where he is an associate director, failed to get runs in London. According to him, this was because the cast had no famous names.

you mean theater goers want to see plays starring famous name, big talent actors? i never would have guessed.