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Yes, I did mean the live broadcast versus the recorded version. They should be just the same, and they're certainly going to look much the same, but it feels different to me. As if you're almost there, but at a distance. So I think I would like to have that experience when it's the only chance I'll get (i.e. the one time it's broadcast live). I don't think anybody else would be missing out if they waited. It's just personal 
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I see. Then I hope you will be able to catch that broadcast. 
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The NT Live and the subsequent Encore screenings are exactly the same. There are no alterations made.
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Thank you for confirming.
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I’m a Yank who is relatively new to Shakespeare. I agree that the dialogue is not always easy to understand (then again I do think that his plays are meant to be performed rather than read) but it doesn’t stop me from enjoying the plots. I do remember that I couldn’t stand having to read Romeo and Juliet when I was in High School. However, as an adult, I have gotten see some of the Bard’s other work and have since developed an interest.
Hamlet isn’t my favorite Shakespeare play (for me that would be Macbeth) but I do enjoy it nevertheless. The versions that I have watched are the 1948 Laurence Olivier film and a TV version with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, which originally came from a Royal Shakespeare Company production. Both of them are excellent. I still have yet to see the Kenneth Branagh film or the one with Mel Gibson.
I will certainly try to catch the live recording/broadcast Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet if I can. What will be interesting is the approach that they take with it. Whether it will have a historical setting or a modern one.
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My money's on the latter!
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Oh my, this just made me laugh out loud like a complete idiot...
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Perfect!!!
That just made my Sunday!
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Brilliant!
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Love it! 
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This one made me laugh a few weeks too...
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Lovely, isn't it? I knew you'd all like it.
Phantom, not bad, either. 
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Fab.
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Hee hee hee!
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This is really fun. Another one - spoiler warning:
source: savagechickens.com
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Fabulous.
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This is humor just up my street!
Gah, this reminds me I still haven't been able to find the major paper I wrote on Hamlet - An indepth look into death and insanity.
The book was full of book marks I remember... I had to refference each time someone died or said something insane...
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This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:
This one made me laugh a few weeks too...
Great! I laughed so hard when I saw it
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National Theatre Live announced this on twitter this morning:
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NEWSFLASH: We'll broadcast Benedict Cumberbatch in #hamletbarbican on 15 Oct. On sale 16 Mar! …
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.
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