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Hi! I'm Patricia Browning, and I write about obscure (and not-so obscure) facets of David Tennant's work and career. My particular passion is researching and writing about his early Scottish theatre work. I also have a companion podcast!
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Early Theatre Deep Dive: David Tennant’s 1989 Warsaw Exchange (opens the original)
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In my last post, I let you in on a project I’ve not-so-quietly been obsessing over since I started working on it a week or so ago—putting together a series of five timelines charting David Tennant’s theatre work from the very start, including his drama school plays and any rehearsal dates I’ve managed to track down:I’m thoroughly enjoying the work I’ve been putting into it, and I hope you enjoy it, too!I think you might also enjoy another happy side effect of the project. Getting the first timel
Building a (Literal!) Timeline of David Tennant’s Theatre Work (opens the original)
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I’m excited to introduce something I’ve been working on all this week, inspired by a Tumblr reader of mine named literatemisfit. They left me a comment a little less than a week ago now which made me stop and think, do some research, and then put something together. They’d read my last post on Conjuring Shakespeare (you know the one, where David played Angelo)…...and noted I happened to mention David had been doing Hurlyburly on stage for a few weeks before traveling to Oxford to film that scene
David Tennant Has Played Angelo. Just Not Quite Like That. (opens the original)
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(Please accept my apologies for the length of time between posts, but it was a purposeful choice. I’ve got an anniversary tucked inside this post I was waiting for, though you’ll have to wait a little longer before I tell you what we’re celebrating. 😁)Fans have asked David Tennant many times over the years which characters are still left on his theatrical bucket list, and almost without fail, the character of Angelo in Measure for Measure makes that list (usually alongside Iago and Malvolio). It
One Minute, One Line, One Night (opens the original)
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Some of the coolest discoveries I've made while researching David Tennant's early career haven't sprung from things I found sitting in some archive somewhere. They came from conversations that started about something else entirely.Now don’t get me wrong—I’m not saying legwork isn't worthwhile! It certainly is. While I was living in Glasgow from 2018 to 2020, I spent a lot of my free time chasing down those scraps of information that might shed light on David's more elusive early performances...l
The "First" First Time: The Groundlings Beat Them To It (opens the original)
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David Tennant has spent over thirty years on stage forgetting lines, hurting himself, and occasionally ad-libbing his way out of trouble, so he’s no stranger to thinking on his feet. We all know he’s had to deal with his share of stressful situations.But none of that is improv. There’s a big difference between improvising your way out of something you’re stuck on inside a play you already know, and standing on a bare stage with nothing to fall back on. Improvisational comedy is no script, no cha
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