I booked my seat for tonight's Hamlet Press Night through the RSC postal application over a year ago so I had quite a good seat.
Unfortunately I started a cold yesterday and I felt rough all day today. At about 4.00pm I saw that someone had posted online that they had heard on the radio that David Tennant would not be playing in Hamlet tonight.
I rang the Box Office to check and was told that they were waiting to hear either way and then he asked me to hang on and confirmed that they had just heard that he wouldn't be playing.
I felt really sorry for David Tennant as a Press Night for Hamlet in London is a really big deal so I wasn't surprised to hear that the official press release said that he was "gutted". I just hope that he recovers soon and I'm optimistically hanging on to the hope that as he cancelled quite late, he may be able to play again later this week (ideally for me tomorrow!).
As I felt rough, I gave my ticket to someone I work with who was keen to see Hamlet so it went to a good home
