alwaysthisdangerous:

Mr. & Mrs. Holmes played by Benedict’s parents

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@темы: sherlock, timothy carlton, THIS WAS SO AWESOME, wanda ventham

bennybatch:

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@темы: sherlock, benedict cumberbatch, martin freeman

Coriolanus - 06 December 2013 - 08 February 2014 at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre

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@темы: coriolanus, tom hiddleston, hadley fraser

deareje:

Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller, Kyle Soller aaaaaand Benedict’s father Timothy Carlton!

HOW MUCH AWESOME CAN YOU FIT IN A PHOTO?!

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@темы: benedict cumberbatch, jonny lee miller, kyle soller, like honestly all this needs is heff and it'd be unbeatable, there is not enough kyle on tumblr, timothy carlton

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Benedict Cumberbatch #30, 2250x3000px (#01 | #02 | #03 | #04)

happy new year.

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@темы: maybe, i dont know, but also, aaaaahhhh i cant believe it's the last day of 2013, but on the other hand, feeeelingssss everywhere, for those outside uk, i may have gifs or caps queued up when it airs, i once made a post on how to use VPN to watch iplayer, it's a reeeeally old post so you may have to browse waaay back, nooooooo, the new eposide is brilliantly funny, those browser add-ons are not quite reliable imo, you're gonna LOVE it

@темы: tolkien, lord of the rings

Top 13 Plays of 2013

1. Edward II (National Theatre)

Well SURPRISE! Who expected to see this at number one? Certainly not me…

Let’s be quite honest here. John Heffernan. Lead role. The chances of me not loving every second of this were slim to none. I admit that. But I don’t think he’s brilliant because I love him, I love him because he’s brilliant. He speaks verse so beautifully, and with such meaning. I admit sometimes I struggle to fully understand verse like that but he always seems to be able to make me know exactly what he’s talking about. He has this voice that sounds old and young and sad and amused and scared and wise and knowing all at the same time. He cries on cue, out of nowhere. And I always believe him. Every performance he gives, he convinces me. He can even make me not like him if he wants to (and he did in this, for a short while, before he went and made me care about him and then broke me completely. Bastard.). He’s just…oh, I’m sorry to rave on, I know I always do, but HE’S SO WONDERFUL. Just seeing him do a rehearsed reading, sat on a chair with a sсript in his hand, is a delight and a privilege. Lead role on the Olivier stage? TAKE MY MONEY.

I know this was a Marmite play. I know people left at the interval. I know some of the critics absolutely detested it. Well…who cares. I thought it was bold and brave and exciting. John is perfect. Kyle Soller was an awesome Gaveston, from his ridiculously fabulous swaggering entrance to his demise and return as Lightborn. And they were fantastic together. I believed in their love and their heartbreak and that top photo there? Stage snog of the year. Winner. I loved Isabella, I loved Mortimer, I loved Lancaster, I loved Spencer and Baldock, I loved the creepy as fuck masks, I loved the video screens, I loved the captions, the music, the drums, the mix of period and modern, all the AAAALAAAAAAAARRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMS!, the way John’s screaming at the end made me feel shaky even after I’d seen it five times… just… EVERYTHING. I understand why it was divisive and I’m not denying it had its flaws but to me it was perfect <3

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@темы: john heffernan, kyle soller, claire's top 13 of 2013, AAAAAAAALLLAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRUUUUUUUUUUMMMMSSSSS, also needs to be showered in awards, and i had a bloody lovely time going to see it and sharing it all with friends who loved it too, and i think the more cretin letts hated it the more i loved it, heff needs to be showered in all the awards, i just have a lot of edward ii feelings, i miss it, i need to shut up, it was just a really great bit of 2013, oh god this play, okay i got a bit carried away with this one, this isn't even half of my feelings tbh, theatre

Top 13 Plays of 2013

=2. The Pride (Trafalgar Transformed)

The Pride. Wow. The Pride was beautiful, and couldn’t have been more timely. I’m going to keep this one brief because I could say so, SO much if I let myself start, but essentially this is so high up my list because I was pretty much speechless as the lights came up for the interval and by the end I was so moved I could feel tears in my eyes at how much I cared for them all. Perhaps it hit a nerve. When they held those signs up in the photo I wanted to go over and hug them all…I’m not even sure if I was thinking of the characters or the actors - they’d all done such an amazing job that I don’t suppose I saw much difference in that moment anyway. It was touching and funny, awful and shocking, achingly sad and yet hopeful… I was left feeling so, so glad I’d seen it. It felt like a play that really mattered, and I wish I could go again and take a bunch of homophobic people with me in the hope it might change their minds.

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@темы: hayley atwell, harry hadden-paton, mat horne, al weaver, claire's top 13 of 2013, theatre

Top 13 Plays of 2013

4. Josephine & I (Bush Theatre)

I went to see this for two reasons, really. One, CUSH JUMBO. Two, I’d read a little about Josephine Baker for my uni assignment on music in the Weimar Republic, and thought she sounded pretty awesome. I’m so glad I did. I cannot say enough good things about it. Cush didn’t just star in this one-woman show, she wrote it too, and I could feel the love she put into it all dripping out of every line. It was inspiring, moving, funny, and so full of heart. I laughed, I cried, I had shivers down my spine and I was completely spellbound the whole way through. Utterly wonderful.

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I decided to do my Top 13 Plays of 2013 (I can’t bear to cut it down to ten! It was so hard already!)

In no particular order, 6-13 are…

Othello (National Theatre)

Strange Interlude (National Theatre)

Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse)

Henry V (Noel Coward)

Sea Wall (National Theatre)

1984 (Headlong, on tour)

The Effect (National Theatre)

No Quarter (Royal Court)

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@темы: tom sturridge, billie piper, andrew scott, tom hiddleston, hadley fraser, charles edwards, rory kinnear, adrian lester, anne-marie duff, claire's top 13 of 2013, honestly i'd love to know, if anyone wants to join in that'd be really cool, jonjo o'neill, mark arends, theatre, jude law