I once saw a rather strange production of Richard III in which I concluded that the real reason for Richard's behaviour was his resentment that the Yorks' money had run out before he got to public school, because Edward and Clarence had very posh accents and his was pure Yorkshire.
I've some sympathy with Nightingale in that, though I know Tennant uses other expressions for the Doctor, I really do think he overdoes the bulging-eyes-and-dropping-jaw one. It's knowing that he can do more and better that makes it irritating. And I was a bit alarmed to hear the Front Row (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/) reviewer this evening saying that he thought some of the bulging-eyes mannerisms had carried over into this (though he thought they worked quite well - his primary criticism was of Greg Doran's production, as he thought Claudius was a bit too nice for Elsinore to be a dangerous and paranoid place).
I think my exhibit might be Takin' Over the Asylum (http://kalypso-v.livejournal.com/161119.html), even if he's in super-manic flow there too.
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I've some sympathy with Nightingale in that, though I know Tennant uses other expressions for the Doctor, I really do think he overdoes the bulging-eyes-and-dropping-jaw one. It's knowing that he can do more and better that makes it irritating. And I was a bit alarmed to hear the Front Row (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/) reviewer this evening saying that he thought some of the bulging-eyes mannerisms had carried over into this (though he thought they worked quite well - his primary criticism was of Greg Doran's production, as he thought Claudius was a bit too nice for Elsinore to be a dangerous and paranoid place).
I think my exhibit might be Takin' Over the Asylum (http://kalypso-v.livejournal.com/161119.html), even if he's in super-manic flow there too.