Heaven on a stick

I mean, Dr Who meets Shakespeare! The RSC's latest Hamlet, starring David Tennant, has been the most hotly anticipated show in Britain for months. And controversial - it's provoked sharp comments about celebrity culture from, among others, Jonathan Miller. But had I 500 pounds and an air ticket, I would be so there. The reviews have just come out, and they're laudatory.

Michael Billington at the Guardian says this is the funniest Hamlet he has ever seen, although he misses the "philosophical" aspect of Hamlet in Tennant's "active, athletic, immensely engaging" performance. Paul Taylor of the Independent says of Tennant: "This actor has most of what it takes: the braininess, the breadth of spirit, the reckless irony, the bamboozling banter, the sense of layered depth. He can produce moments of sudden stillness when he seems to be dazed by the vortex of meditation...So what's missing? ... At the moment, that strange double-feeling of exposure and spiritual connection is not as strong here as one could wish." But, for all their reservations, both critics are deeply impressed, and make me wish I had a Tardis.