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krikopol-kristina: Christopher Eccleston

Thu, 31 May 2012 16:11:21 +0800

krikopol-kristina:

Christopher Eccleston

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from dailymail In the Royal National Theatre’s pacy new...

Thu, 31 May 2012 11:52:00 +0800

from dailymail

In the Royal National Theatre’s pacy new production of Antigone, Creon is played by Christopher Eccleston. He may be best known nationally for his brief stint as TV’s Doctor Who but Mr Eccleston is a stage actor of stature.

He combines a rangy physical presence with a temple-twitching intensity.

~kerist, dailymail, ecclestone? really?

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Thu, 31 May 2012 10:21:42 +0800

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Thu, 31 May 2012 10:16:06 +0800

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I officially hate tags…

　

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Thu, 31 May 2012 10:10:39 +0800

ea-love:

S01E02 - The End of the World

So Antigone was awesomesauce.

Thu, 31 May 2012 10:07:55 +0800

believeandhow:

They set it in the mid 50’s cold war era and it worked SO WELL. The intensity was unbelievable, and Eccleston was MARVELOUS as Creon.

Also, my seat was AMAZING. For £5 I was expecting super obstructed view or something, but it was second row, audience right. Off center for sure, but it was a thrust stage so lots was still happening right in front of me.

Here’s a picture I managed to sneak. The blurry bit is Eccleston’s arse as he ran by for his bow.

And here’s a slightly better one where you can actually kind of see that it was him:

Also, it should never be underestimated how much a suit will add to a guy’s attractiveness in my book. Like I certainly never found Eccleston UNattractive before (because hello, I’m human), but wearing a suit here? Unf.

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Thu, 31 May 2012 10:04:07 +0800

#Every companion in the history of doctor who: yolo

From theartsdesk Although some contemporary plays — notably Posh...

Thu, 31 May 2012 09:59:42 +0800

From theartsdesk

Although some contemporary plays — notably Posh and 13 — have accurately taken the temperature of the times, what about the timeless classics? Does Sophocles’s Antigone (dated about 441BC) have anything to say to us today? How can it be of our time too? As the National Theatre wheels out this play, with a cast led by Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Whittaker, onto its main stage, such questions hang in the air like the smoke from an ancient funeral pyre.

The third of the Theban plays, Antigone is a perfect tragedy in that everyone behaves in the right way, but with fatal results. It’s a true tragedy of irreconcilables. Creon, the ruler of Thebes, has decided that Polynices, who has died fighting his own brother in a civil war, has no right to be buried. Instead, his body must be left on the field of battle, a prey to scavenging dogs. On pain of death. This antagonises the dead man’s sisters, Antigone and Ismene.

At the start of the play, they meet secretly. Antigone wants to bury her brother, it’s a sacred duty, but Ismene is afraid that Creon will put them to death if they do. Antigone decides to do the right thing anyway, thus bringing on her head the sentence of being entombed in a cave while still alive. Despite the warnings of the blind prophet Teiresias, Creon doesn’t relent, with disastrous consequences which also involve Haemon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s betrothed.

To get the full psychological and emotional impact of the situation, it helps to know that Antigone is also Creon’s niece, that Creon is Jocasta’s husband, and that Antigone, Ismene and Polynices are all the children of Oedipus. Yes, it’s a terrible tangle. What a family. But this is also a tale of moral duty, and — despite the title — more about Creon, who does the right thing and still gets stuffed, than about his niece.

Polly Findlay’s version starts off like a political thriller. The setting suggests the former Eastern bloc, a surveillance state which acts with the force of psychological repression, as well as suggesting other evil regimes from all over the world. It’s a bunker, a war room or a dictator’s anti-nuclear hideaway. The powerful design, by Soutra Gilmour, is hard in its concrete brutalism, implying a nasty West Wing, a dark episode of 24.

But although this production begins with an image that recalls the way that Obama and Clinton watched the killing of Bin Laden, this sense of the contemporary is hard to sustain. After all, this is a play about gods and fates. Eccleston understands this perfectly, dominating the stage by balancing the different public faces required of a politician, yet also being convincing as a family man and as an individual struggling with belief. He also cynically plays the terrorist card.

Much less satisfying is Jodie Whittaker’s Antigone (pictured above). From the start her speeches feel oddly thin, lacking body, weak words. When she tells her uncle to kill her, her gesture suggests a casual shrug rather than noble self-sacrifice. Yet, despite this, her preparation for execution is gruesomely moving. Both the main leads get solid support from Annabel Scholey (Ismene), Luke Newberry (Haemon) and Jamie Ballard as a gnarled and deformed Teiresias.

In this production the lines of the chorus are split among a host of individual actors, who become a pack of political advisors, security experts, report writers, spin doctors, military experts, secretaries and functionaries. This works really well, and the ensemble holds the play together while propelling the action forward. I was less impressed by Don Taylor’s translation, originally written for television, which awkwardly mixes the slangy and the stately. Why didn’t the National commission a fresher version? It worked for One Man, Two Guvnors.

So while Findlay’s production looks great, with its pulsing music, haunting electrical storm and general atmosphere of fear, its contemporary flavour is diffused by including too many different historical associations, and never quite getting over the archaic qualities of the text. I really wish she’d gone the whole hog, and completely updated it. Eccleston rules most of the scenes, Whittaker disappoints, but the play finally fails to say anything definite about the world today.

To bed, I think. Need energy to continue with the WOWY Ecclesex gifs tomorrow…yawns

Wed, 30 May 2012 22:20:19 +0800

To bed, I think.

Need energy to continue with the WOWY Ecclesex gifs tomorrow…*yawns*　

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Wed, 30 May 2012 21:46:59 +0800

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Wed, 30 May 2012 21:01:33 +0800

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sardonicus69: https://twitter.com/Stuffasdreams/status/207600531...

Wed, 30 May 2012 21:00:00 +0800

sardonicus69:

https://twitter.com/Stuffasdreams/status/207600531244453888

RAWR! Oh noes! Not another ubiquitous denim shirt. (although this one is a bit too tight…weeeee!)

Or mebbe he gained weight? xD

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Wed, 30 May 2012 20:53:48 +0800

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Wed, 30 May 2012 20:46:57 +0800

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londonphile: Antigone via @ATBN

Wed, 30 May 2012 20:37:37 +0800

londonphile:

Antigone via @ATBN

nervation: is there a christopher eccleston blog that’s still being updated? there’s...

Wed, 30 May 2012 20:36:00 +0800

nervation:

is there a christopher eccleston blog that’s still being updated?

there’s this

http://fychristophereccleston.tumblr.com/

but it hasn’t been updated for 10 months and this

http://christophereccleston.tumblr.com/

but it doesn’t look very active? last post was 2 weeks ago but the one before that was a year ago so hm

if there isn’t one besides these two, I’m making one I think　

edit: actually I can’t decide if I want to or not hm

mostly I’m just bored and want to start another blog but I’ve got enough already so maybe I shouldn’t.

There’s mine xD

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Wed, 30 May 2012 20:30:14 +0800

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Wed, 30 May 2012 20:28:05 +0800

lazy bleeder

krikopol-kristina: Christopher Eccleston

aforceyoucannotignore: Doctor Who Rewatch: One Gifset Per...

from dailymail In the Royal National Theatre’s pacy new...

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londonphile: I officially hate tags… *patiently waits for unmarked pics to come up soon*

ea-love: S01E02 - The End of the World

So Antigone was awesomesauce.

#Every companion in the history of doctor who: yolo

From theartsdesk Although some contemporary plays — notably Posh...

To bed, I think. Need energy to continue with the WOWY Ecclesex gifs tomorrow…*yawns*

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Gif Tutorials

sardonicus69: https://twitter.com/Stuffasdreams/status/207600531...

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doctor who meme | one doctor ↳ ninth doctor (christopher...

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londonphile: Antigone via @ATBN

nervation: is there a christopher eccleston blog that’s still being updated? there’s...

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To bed, I think. Need energy to continue with the WOWY Ecclesex gifs tomorrow…yawns