#good the play

[mizgnomer]

Parallel photos: The Tennants and the Shebergs

#david tennant #georgia tennant #michael sheen #anna lundberg #because I love posting parallels #and apparently these two couples enjoy making them #who knew good omens #would lead to so many good things #good omens #nye #good the play #and their marvelous mugs #stuff i posted #parallels #tennant sheberg parallels #cute couples being cute together #staged #bbc staged #I nearly included the taking babies home from the hospital photos #will include those if I ever do a part 2 #but I liked this set with everyone's faces

[olympain]

#theatreedit #dtennantedit #dtedit #good the play #david tennant #cp taylor #elliot levey #national theatre #original #*gifs

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Oh my, this is a Crowley look! :)

My shenanigans:

#good omens #david tennant #crowley #such a crowley look! :) #photos #good the play #my edit

[too-funky]

New trailer for Good, which will be shown in UK cinemas from 20 April and international cinemas from 15 June

#david tennant #sharon small #elliot levey #good #good the play #national theatre #national theatre live

[ngkiscool]

David Tennant at the Olivier Awards (2023) [X]

#david tennant #olivier awards #good the play

[scotchnlondonfogg]

It's been two weeks since I was able to take in a viewing of the National Theatre Live production of "Good." I find it is still very much in my thoughts. As I hadn't reviewed it yet, now is a good a time as any (pardon the pun).

I purchased a copy of the screenplay, and if I hadn't seen the production in advance, it would have made for a tough and confusing read. Not unlike Shakespeare plays, this is a play that needs to be seen in performance to make sense. Between the time jumps and the quick cuts of dialogue and scenes it does not lend itself to the reader.

The West End revival of "Good" was supposed to take place originally back in 2020. But as we all know, the world ground to a halt, theatre's and live performance taking an especially hard hit. By some miracle, all three original actors were able to keep to their promise of being in this revival production.

The play, written by CP Taylor, takes place in 1930s Germany over a span of around eight years. It follows a "good" man and how such a good person could, unknowingly, be led into evil.

This revival production has three main actors, two of whom play a multitude of parts. The always mesmerizing David Tennant is the lead protagonist playing John Halder. Halder believes himself to be a good person, and a happy one, he does not see himself drifting into the evils of the Nazi regime. His character has a wife and children and a mother who has dementia. He hears a lot of music in his head. Music is peppered through the play, as a dramatic device it denotes Halder's detachment from reality. Halder also has an inability to listen to others, he has a case of narcissism in his character. Tennant subtly portrays a lurking darkness, that has always been there, under an bookish and affable exterior. He pretends to be concerned for others, but is always acting with selfish motivations. It is stunning and chilling.

Tennant's fellow actors, Elliot Levey and Sharon Small, play multiple roles. Elliot Levey plays Maurice, Halder's best, and only, friend. In addition he plays a range of characters and Nazi supervisors. Elliot imbues Maurice with a sense of growing panic and betrayal as he watches the horrors unfold before him. How can his best friend not help get out of the danger? How can Halder not see what is actually happening around them?

Halder: This is still a capitalist country. The real power is in the hand of the capitalists. They can't afford to have a mystic idealist running their country...this is a temporary aberration.

Maurice: He doesn't listen to people. I'm telling you. There is legislation coming in the next few days...in the next day...today...maybe yesterday.

Halder is above the conflicts in many ways because of his background, and his constant self-justification and moral emptiness will mean he betrays his 'good' sense of self. He rationalizes everything, even when he's in the middle of the "night of the broken glass" (the Anti-Jewish pogroms that took place in November of 1938). He's a literature professor and he doesn't make much of the book burning at the University, as long as he can keep his copies of his books, since his superior has disguised his jazz music records in order to keep them.

Freddie: All right, Johnnie? Can I leave that to you?

Halder: As long as I can keep my copies, Freddie.

Freddie: I've got my jungle music haven't I?

Sharon Small plays Helen - Halder's wife, his mother with dementia, Anne - his mistress, and a couple of fellow SS officers. As Helen, Small portrays a sense of constant putting down of herself, she's frequently looking down at the floor. As Halder's mother, she hunches and shrinks down a bit in stature. If it all sounds confusing to watch, it could have been. However, Levey and Small did a tremendous job of using body language and vocal inflections to keep the characters separate. Once you quickly cotton on to the switches, it works because of these top shelf actors. The stage direction also helps via stage lighting and music to denote scene changes. Seeing this on film was amazing, those that got to see it live on stage, that would have been genuine stage magic.

The strength of this play, through CP Taylor's writing, shows you the varied ways that people delude themselves and shut out realities in front of them. The mentality of "surely they won't take it that far" is a comfortable place to reside. Humans have their fallibles and their ways of convincing themselves "it won't happen to me." Those attitudes will never change. But seeing media like this can help open dialogues among people to hopefully at least step back and think "would I know how to back out and not be a part of the problem?" It makes you ponder tough questions about your own sense of self. In this age of digital division and politics deepening the divide between us all, it is worth trying to see things from the other perspective, and speaking up if you think actions are going too far.

I sincerely hope National Theatre Live adds this to their online "watch at home" option once the movie screening run is concluded. Everyone deserves the chance to see this play.

#david tennant #theatre #good the play #national theatre live

[ingravinoveritas]

David looking entirely too attractive in rehearsals for Good.

#david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #good the play #god he is gorgeous here #is it even legal to look this handsome? #far too much attractiveness in one person #the third pic is my favorite #this man is a bi disaster and i love him #he's so bi he can't even sit straight #right down to the rainbow socks #wish i could see this in person #bless

[hideandsqueek]

So over winter break, I spent almost a month in England, much of that in London. I’ve been before so I spent a lot of time doing off the beaten path things and lallygagging in art museums I never had time for before. But I really went for theatre. I saw four different productions and all were wonderful. But almost totally unintentionally, I collected 4 different fave Doctor Who actors in the same go? Not even at a convention or anything? So I figured I should put it down here for posterity. (My face obscured because reasons. If you know me, you’ve seen these!)

I saw The Enfield Haunting and Catherine Tate was amazing in it. Third play I’ve seen her do and definitely the weirdest. But she was the sweetest afterwards. This was literally 2 days after the last 60th special aired and she accidentally spoiled someone and then felt really bad. Signed stuff and chatted as long as we wanted. I love her so much.

Then I saw this play. Which you know is why I went across the ocean. And no that’s not my picture obvs. No stage door signings at the Donmar. But look how fucking beautiful they are. JFC this play wrecked me in the best way. Maybe forever. And really I was very close to himself so it counts.

And not a play (tho I’ve seen her Yerma and also JFC), just a happy coincidence. I follow Billie Piper on insta and she posted about the Choose Love charity pop up where she’d be manning the tills. I was in the neighborhood so I bought some stuff for refugees from her and got this adorable picture. Can’t wait to see her again in a few days at Gallifrey One. 💙💙

And because it was around Christmas and because I was there and by this point I couldn’t actually NOT, I also went to see Christopher Eccleston in A Christmas Carol (which was so much better than I was expecting!). And though it was a very large theatre and it was fully packed, only a few folk went to the stage door. He was very nice and signed my program and paused for a terrible picture of both of us (it was very dark outside, my phone had trouble).

And there you have it. Maybe I’ll do another post with the non-theatre-related things I did in London. But I think like one personal post a decade is probably my limit. 😂

And okay here’s a bonus picture from the year before where the one dude I really like to see do plays did come out at the stage door.

#david tennant #catherine tate #billie piper #christopher eccleston #bonus #cush jumbo #london #macbeth #the enfield haunting #a christmas carol #choose love #good the play #personal post

[hexgirlnatural]

in my david tennant simp era

#david tennant #crowley #good omens #alec hardy #broadchurch #10th doctor #the doctor #doctor who #good the play

[tyttetardis]

David Tennant, Good, Press Night 12th October 2022, stage door

Wow, these pictures are nothing like my photos from DJIS in terms of quality, but with the terrible light, a phone instead of a camera and having David smile at me while looking into my eyes with those intense, beautiful eyes of his good pictures definitely weren’t happening. But, for tradition’s sake I figured I should just add a few to my page <3

#david tennant #good the play #stage door #crappy photos but hey it's always a pleasure meeting David #I didn't even expect him to come for stage door this night #but being the absolute sweetheart that he is of course he did #and I was rather blown away by him not mere wearing a handsome outfit but also not wearing the mask or cap #it was of course all super quick #but my gosh my brain just haywired for those for secs he stood in front of me and talked to me #guess that's never gonna stop happening no matter how many times I meet him #I didn't dare bring my actual camera #both because the stage door experience this time is so weirdly calm! It would feel weiird to rock up with an actual camera #also because as I was standing with my phone filming on the first night the security guy said No cameras. No flash and I was like what?! #I mean the no selfies was what it was but it seemed weird that pictures wouldn't be allowed at all #and why also say no flash if you already said no camera #but yeah freaked me out so I didn't dare film the next day either #which was a shame because damn he looked good that day! #Also I already posted some of these so not gonna bother with watermarks #but yeah also debating whether to even post pictures in the future #but since these are out they might as well go up like a wee journal page for myself

[theshakespeariandoctor]

I watched David Tennant in Good.

Spoilers and discussion of the Holocaust under the cut.

This play is completely, totally fucked This was a brilliant play and David Tennant was brilliant. I did not know what the play was about going into it, only that it was vaguely about the morality of an ordinary man during WWII. I didn’t know I was about to watch an actual Nazi actually plan mass murder and make excuses for some of the most heinous things a human being can do while remaining relatable and convinced he was a good person in the most plaintive, reasonable way.

But on rewatch, when I listen to how he talks about the bands and how he talks to himself and how he is detached from reality, which is frightening with how relatable it is... (I talk to myself! I’ve felt detached! Indecisive! Guilty and in love at the same time!)

When I hear the things he says that are totally hypocritical and self-deceptive… he’s doing it for his kids and wife but he leaves his kids and wife. His book about killing his mother is him venting during a difficult time in life but he is going to use the credentials it gives him to implement the fictional ideas for real and help make execution chambers. He looks into the eyes of his only friend and he won’t save his life.

…I realize this guy is fucking delusional. He is detached from reality and sleep walking his way into becoming a monster without for a moment reflecting on what he is doing. What a repulsive piece of human garbage.

I wonder whether the only reason I haven’t descended to his level is purely due to the luck of not being in his circumstances, and I wonder to what extent I have already descended to his level. The play has showed me it doesn’t matter what you think and what you say… in the end it’s what you are willing to do, your action or inaction that matters. I think in the end you have to do something. It will not be enough but it will be something.

I feel truly impacted by the themes of the play and the characters Tennant and all cast members brought to life.

#david tennant #good the play #tw antisemitism #image description in alt #stuff i watched

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant Year in Review - 2022

David’s television, film, convention, charity, and other appearances from 2022, all in one convenient photoset (plus a few of Georgia's excellent Instagram photos too)

Previous Years in Review: [ 2021 ] [ 2020 ] [ 2019 ] [ 2018 ] [ 2017 ] [ 2016 ] [ 2015 ] [ 2014 ]

#david tennant #year in review #year in review 2022 #good omens #doctor who #around the world in 80 days #staged #bbc staged #litvinenko #meet the richardsons #good #good the play #the amazing maurice #georgia tennant #so much good stuff coming in 2023 too #it's so exciting #stuff i posted #tenTeen #tenAgain

[olympain]

Could it be some subconscious comment on my loose grip of reality? The whole of my life as a performance. Is that too glib, do you think, Maurice?

#theatreedit #dtennantedit #dtedit #national theatre #good the play #harold pinter theatre #elliot levey #david tennant #sharon small #cp taylor #ntlive #dominic cooke #original #*gifs

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Original :): (I'm just messing around with photoshop because David has such a Crowley look today :))

#david tennant #good omens #good the play #my edit #crowley #photos

[too-funky]

Who is uncomplicated? Who is without moments of selfishness? And without moments of selflessness? John Halder has both, and that is what makes the journey he goes on all the more fascinating and chilling, actually, because I think we can all see ourselves in John Halder, to some extent.

David Tennant, Elliot Levey, Sharon Small, and director Dominic Cooke talk about Good ahead of its cinema release with National Theatre Live

#david tennant #elliot levey #sharon small #dominic cooke #good #good the play #national theatre #national theatre live

[sorrybrian]

I am love with this coat on DT. When I first saw this picture it took my breath away.

#david tennant #olivier awards #slayyyyy #good the play