The Big Day Arrives!

I can't wait to see Hamlet tonight! I love David Tennant Edward Bennett! He is so sexy mysterious! And there's nothing I love more than seeing an actor about whom I have a fully formed fantasy life in which we are married but he is away on location all the time I know absolutely nothing aside from that he can flamenco dance and play the clarinet! I can't wait to show off to all those losers who couldn't get a ticket because they didn't have a friend who was a member of the RSC be fully focused on the glories of Shakespeare's language! And isn't it exciting that I will be within grabbing distance of David Tennant without a restraining order be able to see the guy who usually plays Guildenstern playing Laertes! I am totally taking a condom in my handbag just in case interested in theatre for the sake of theatre! No! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Positive Spin

I mean, in years to come, I might be able to tell people that I was one of the lucky few who saw Edward Bennett in Hamlet, when he stepped in for David Tennant under dramatic circumstances, brought the house down with his spectacular performance, and launched his now-glittering career! Pity the poor folk who just saw boring old DT. Indeed, did I ever mention how I saw the actress who'd been the understudy in 42nd St and then took over the role, in a case of life imitating art? It was Catherine Zeta Jones. Fact. So the future me finds this totally exciting. Totally. Exciting.

This is Edward Bennett

I have three days to get as excited about seeing him as Hamlet as I was about seeing David Tennant. I have been a fan of David Tennant ever since Casanova, which was three years ago, so it's three years per day. It's a big ask but I reckon I can manage it. Otherwise, and I know it's an ensemble production etc etc, but it is a bit like going to see Aretha Franklin and finding out that she's lost her voice but they are going to do the gig anyway, with one of the backing singers on lead vocals. I mean, I'm sure the backing singer has a terrific voice. But she aint Aretha.

So, anyway, there is stuff to get excited about here. Ed has great eyebrows and nice lips. He probably kisses like a dream. Also, according to his Rada page, he can do the Lindy Hop and play the bongos. He has a clean driving license, which is important, because I don't have a car, and he likes swimming, and so do I. He likes swimming so much he has mentioned it twice. And he has played Hamlet at university, which is handy. We are totally overlooking the fact that not only does he hunt on horseback but he has put it on his CV. Because if not, that is going to fully interfere with the crush I have to develop by 7.30pm on Friday.

Mrs Edward Bennett. Mrs Marie Bennett. Mr and Mrs Phillips-Bennett.

I can probably wean him off the hunting.