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In 1986, Juliet Stevenson starred as Antigone, with John Shrapnel as Creon and John Gielgud as Tiresias in the BBC's The Theban Plays. Antigone at the Barbican was a 2015 filmed-for-TV version of a production at the Barbican directed by Ivo van Hove; the translation was by Anne Carson and the film starred Juliette Binoche as Antigone and ...
BBC: Screen Two: "Time After Time" 26 January 1986: BBC Two: Jasper Swift: The Theban Plays by Sophocles: "Oedipus the King" 16 September 1986: BBC: Teiresias The Theban Plays by Sophocles: "Antigone" 19 September 1986: BBC: Teiresias Screen Two: "Quartermaine's Terms" 29 March 1987: BBC: Eddie Loomis: A Man for All Seasons: 7 December 1988 ...
24 July – BBC1 airs the opening ceremony from the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh which includes a 45-minute display produced by the BBC that celebrates the Spirit of Youth. [ 24 ] 24 July–2 August – The BBC airs the 1986 Commonwealth Games and for the first time they are shown live and in full with around ten hours of live coverage ...
Donald Victor Taylor (30 June 1936 – 11 November 2003) was an English writer, director and producer, active across theatre, radio and television for over forty years. He is most noted for his television work, particularly his early 1960s collaborations with the playwright David Mercer, much of whose early work Taylor directed for the BBC.
Antigone in Front of the Dead Polynices by Nikiforos Lytras, National Gallery, Athens, Greece (1865) In her own namesake play, Antigone attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices. Oedipus's sons, Eteocles and Polynices, had shared rule jointly until they quarreled, and Eteocles expelled his brother. In Sophocles' account ...
Moviedrome was a British television cult film series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 8 May 1988 to 9 July 2000. Its remit was to broadcast a selection of cult films each with an introduction, first by film director Alex Cox and later by film critic Mark Cousins. The producer and director of the series was Nick Freand Jones.
Amanda explains what Wesley was doing in the caption, "In the scene, the actor is to check a notification on his phone. Each time the actor tried to look at his phone, Wesley thought he was taking ...
Oedipus at Colonus, Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, 1788, Dallas Museum of Art. Led by Antigone, Oedipus enters the village of Colonus and sits down on a stone. They are approached by a villager, who demands that they leave, because that ground is sacred to the Furies, or the Erinyes.