{"id":9015,"date":"2010-04-28T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9015"},"modified":"2010-04-28T13:48:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:48:48","slug":"stewart-and-tennant-in-hamlet-on-pbs-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/04\/stewart-and-tennant-in-hamlet-on-pbs-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart And Tennant In Hamlet On PBS Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of <strong>Patrick Stewart <\/strong>and<strong> David Tennant<\/strong> (<em>Doctor Who<\/em>) will be able to see them perform in <em>Hamlet <\/em>tonight on PBS.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart plays Claudius, uncle and stepfather of Hamlet. Hamlet will be played by Tennant.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/123109Stewart.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9016\" title=\"123109Stewart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/123109Stewart-148x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Years ago, Stewart, who had a good theater career, decided to take on the role of Jean-Luc Picard, against the advice of a friend. The friend told him that it would be foolish to set aside that career to play a spaceship captain on American television.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, said Stewart, &#8220;he&#8217;s told me he was wrong.&#8221; <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> helped Stewart and led to bigger audiences and bigger roles in theater plays. &#8220;This year has been perhaps the grandest year of my life,&#8221; said Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart has wanted to play Claudius for twenty-five years. &#8220;Claudius is a great role, an underestimated role, a role of huge complexity and fascination for a classical actor,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Patrick Stewart and David Tennant (Doctor Who) will be able to see them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[2515,2516,2440,3186],"class_list":["post-9015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-claudius","tag-hamlet","tag-stewart","tag-tennant"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9017,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions\/9017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}