Mend vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Mend). Mend is the shorter watch at 20m compared with 1h 32m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2023). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Mend
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Mend | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2012 |
| Length | 20m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | GG FÁKỌ̀LÀDÉ, Roger Ghil | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Elidio Netto, Eliete Miranda, Markus Konká, Royce Luckessy, Jordan Fernandes | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Mend
Zé runs a repair shop where he toils over the dregs and discards of his suburban seaside town. Zé is a black bisexual middle-aged man looking for love, and facing down the invisible traumas of colonialism to find a new kind of freedom. But can he learn to mend his relationship with himself?
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…
Where to watch
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