National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Three Birthdays
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for Three Birthdays). Three Birthdays is the shorter watch at 1h 30m 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.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
Three Birthdays| National Theatre Live: Antigone | Three Birthdays | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2023 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Jane Weinstock |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Gus Birney, Josh Radnor, Guy Burnet, Dolly Wells, Annie Parisse |
Synopsis
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…
Three Birthdays
In 1970, with the Kent State protests as a backdrop, sixteen-year-old Bobbie and her professor parents Kate and Rob, are torn between their high ideals and the old- fashioned comforts of the nuclear family.
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