Electricity vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.8/10 for Electricity). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 36m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2014). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Electricity posterElectricity2014 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
ElectricityNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 5.8/10★ 10.0/10
Year20142012
Length1h 36m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorBryn HigginsPolly Findlay
Main castPaul Anderson, Christian Cooke, Alice Lowe, Tom Georgeson, Agyness DeynAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Electricity

A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip.

National Theatre Live: Antigone

In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political…

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