{"id":134404,"date":"2017-08-23T17:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/the-world-of-british-acting-sometimes-seems-pretty-small.html"},"modified":"2017-08-23T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T00:14:44","slug":"the-world-of-british-acting-sometimes-seems-pretty-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/the-world-of-british-acting-sometimes-seems-pretty-small.html","title":{"rendered":"The world of British Acting sometimes seems pretty small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And here we have a 2012 National Theatre production of <i>Antigone,<\/i> with the major role of Creon being played by Christopher Eccleston &#8212; the Ninth Doctor in <i>Doctor Who,<\/i> and the title role being played by &#8230; Jodie Whittaker, now cast as the Thirteenth Doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Small world, ennit.<\/p>\n<p>(Lovely accents, by the by.)<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A9-W66xB-fM\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/MSwC8Mx2aYf\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here we have a 2012 National Theatre production of Antigone, with the major role of Creon being played by Christopher Eccleston &#8212; the Ninth Doctor in Doctor Who, and the title role being played by &#8230; Jodie Whittaker, now cast as the Thirteenth Doctor. Small world, ennit. (Lovely accents, by the by.) View on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/the-world-of-british-acting-sometimes-seems-pretty-small.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The world of British Acting sometimes seems pretty small&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,43,75,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-doctor-who","category-media-performers","category-media-stage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Antigone_31.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40678,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/the-doctor-is-no-longer-a-quirky-young-man.html","url_meta":{"origin":134404,"position":0},"title":"The Doctor is no longer a &quot;quirky young man&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Jan-14 3:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And I'm very okay with that.And, frankly, comparing Capaldi's Doctor to Tom Baker and Chris Eccleston is just what I want to hear. \"Mad and dangerous and difficult\" -- okay, that sounds more like Pertwee, but that's not bad, either.(Btw, the picture is of Capaldi in The Three Musketeers, not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26431,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/the-eleven-doctors.html","url_meta":{"origin":134404,"position":1},"title":"The Eleven Doctors","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Feb-12 7:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Doctors are interesting. 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