Ken Park vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for Ken Park). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 37m. Ken Park is the older of the two (2003 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Ken Park
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Ken Park | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2003 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 37m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Edward Lachman, Larry Clark | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Amanda Plummer, Harrison Young, James Ransone, Richard Riehle, Bill Fagerbakke | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Ken Park
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.
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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