Times Online: "A concert pianist’s dying wish to appear on stage in Hamlet has been realised 26 years after his death.
André Tchaikowsky, a Polish Jew who escaped the Holocaust and settled in Britain, bequeathed his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company to be used as a macabre prop."
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Creepy, but very funny and very awesome. It's really oddly nice that someone's dream, while defiantly weird, was capable of being accomplished. I almost hope the the skull was listed in the cast section of the program notes.
I think that it's great that the RSC has been so accommodating to this man's final wishes. Sure, it might make some of the actors feel uneasy, but it's wonderful that this man is doing what he always wanted to do. I do somewhat disagree with keeping the facts about the skull secret from the audience and crew until after the show, it seems like people should know what they are working with, and that the skull should get some credit. But overall, kudos to the RSC for doing this.
"The decision to use the skull was kept secret from the audience and many in the production crew for fear of distracting from Tennant’s performance."
I'm glad to hear that they kept this secret, it would create a huge buzz of sensationalism. What person aspires to play Yorrick? If I had been at the performance I probably would have been staring at the skull anyway, trying to figure out who made such a realistic skull.
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