When acclaimed pianist André Tchaikowsky died in 1982, he bequeathed his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company so it could play the part of Yorick in Hamlet. Good morning, I'm Renee Montagne. André ...

Tennant was the first actor to use the skull in a performance of Hamlet The skull held aloft by actor David Tennant in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Hamlet was a real one, it has been revealed.

Tchaikowsky skull removed for London Hamlet shows Officials at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) have decided to stop using the skull of late Polish pianist ANDRE TCHAIKOWSKY in a British theatre ...

IN his will, André Tchaikowsky (no relation to the Russian composer) left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company to be used in productions of Hamlet, so that after his death there would be a part ...

THE casual listener who at some time has found himself wondering what really prompted the abject but also shiveringly delightful accents of melancholy which pour from Tchaikowsky’s ‘Pathetic’ Symphony ...

Children are often told they can be anything they want when they grow up; they’re less commonly informed that the same rule applies when they die. Tchaikowsky’s skull is one of many that have taken ...