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I fundamentally need to find footage of The Seagull at the Barbican. Please help.

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For his latest challenge, the Doctor Who star is taking to the stage in Thomas Ostermeier’s new production of Ibsen’s dynamic, politically c

Matt Smith is rehearsing for an unusual new production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People directed by Thomas Ostermeier.

He pivots from talk about the play to House of the Dragon. He has glowing words for Freddie Fox who portrays Gwayne Hightower in HotD Season 2.

“What grabbed me about Stockmann is the idea of playing someone who’s on the right side, saying the right thing and fighting for the truth, but who is ultimately like a star turning into a black hole, enveloping himself in his own ego and velocity and opinions. And then, for people to be able to put up their hand and say: I think you’re like this, and the world out there is like that… They’ll actually be able to talk to him.” Won’t that be terrifying? Such jeopardy, it seems, is half of the point. “I hope people do ask questions. It’s such a volatile time. You only need look around to see all the steam coming out of people’s ears, and the theatre has always been a space historically, almost like a church, where a person can go: look, I feel like this. I’m genuinely interested to know where the audience feels the morality of the play lies.” Why do actors with TV or film careers return to the theatre? Week one is doubtless thrilling, but what about week seven? And the pay, my dears! “That’s a good question,” says Smith. “I was talking about this, as one does, to the wonderful actor Freddie Fox, who is not only astoundingly beautiful but also a creature of the theatre, and he said: ‘Well, darling, you know, it’s where one sharpens one’s tool.’” We hoot at the innuendo, and then he says: “But he’s right, of course. What you say about it being repetitive, that’s one way of looking at it. But Lindsay Duncan, another wonderful actor I did a play with, said to me it’s about being consistent and developing, and that… robustness.” The challenge is what he relishes – that and, in this instance, a change of pace from the Games of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, the second series of which he shot last year (Smith plays Prince Daemon, in a wig that makes him look, as I said when I reviewed it, like he’s on tour with Sigue Sigue Sputnik).

BTW: As for what "Sigue Sigue Sputnik" is, I did a search and found this image.

Not sure if George R.R. Martin was a fan of them in the 1980s. 😛

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Schwesterlein [My Little Sister] (Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond - 2020)

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Thomas Ostermeier's production of Hamlet is a shambles – in the most literal sense. The lights have gone down in the Schaubühne in Berlin, and wine and food are flying around the theatre. Claudius's head sags drunkenly into his wedding breakfast. Hamlet writhes around in the soil that covers the stage; the next minute, he starts eating it. As he lopes towards the audience holding a beer can, the sharply dressed twentysomethings in the front row exchange a look of panic.