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95 screencaps from Monday’s episode of ‘Doctors’ have now been added to the gallery. Click here to view the album.

Filming for Hamlet has begun, and there are several ways you can keep up to date with what’s going on.
Production company Illuminations have a blog in which they’re keeping track of the filming as well as the origins of the project.
The RSC have a Twitter feed which may be updated by Keith Osborne (the player [...]

Rehearsals have begun for the version of ‘Hamlet’ due to be televised by BBC Two later this year. The cast got back together on Monday to read through the script again before filming begins this month.
A DVD release is planned for after broadcast.

Yesterday Ed featured in an episode of the BBC daytime drama ‘Doctors’ as the slimy son-in-law of the friend of main character Cherry.
You can catch up on BBC iPlayer until 6:29pm on Monday 8th June 2009, and the episode is also available to download for a limited time as well as in HD.

The Telegraph report today that the recent RSC production of Hamlet is to be filmed, produced by BBC Two.
BBC Two controller Janice Hadlow said the 180-minute screen production of Hamlet was “a wonderful opportunity… to bring one of the great stage successes of last year to a wider audience”.
David Tennant will be returning to the [...]

‘The Great Trip’, part of BBC Radio 3’s Mendelssohn weekend, in which Ed read letters from the composer’s travels, is now available on BBC iPlayer.
Click the link below to listen.
Mendelssohn Weekend: The Great Trip

Ed has received 2nd place at the Ian Charleson Awards, held today at the National Theatre. He received the award for his roles in Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost.
He was beaten to the top by Tom Burke for his role as Adolph in Creditors at the Donmar Warehouse, and Mariah Gale, his co-star in A [...]

Saturday 9 May
10.20-11.30pm BBC RADIO 3
Mendelssohn Weekend: The Great Trip In Words And Music
Mendelssohn’s “Great Trip” – between 1829 and 1832 – was the longest recorded continuous journey undertaken by any known musician of the period. Edward Bennett reads the colourful letters the composer wrote on his European travels.
Mendelssohn’s trip spanned England and Scotland [...]

Edward has been nominated for an Ian Charleson award for his work with the RSC in 2008/9. The awards, sponsored by the National Theatre and The Sunday Times, are for actors under 30 appearing in plays written before 1918.
He faces competition from a number of his co-actors from the year, and the full nomination list [...]

After a veritable drought of information, it turns out that Ed’s been keeping busy with rehearsals for Noel Coward’s Hay Fever, which is opening this week at Chichester Festival Theatre. If you see it, please do pop along to the forum to let us know what you thought of it!
Whatsonstage.com has an interview with Ed [...]