#John halder

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My favorite David Tennant singing moments featuring my music major commentary because I refuse to stop pushing this agenda

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OK I watched Good (David Tennant) as it was airing just now and oh my god it was incredible

As a theatre tech nerd (3 years of stage managing + sound tech) I was absolutely transfixed by the technical stuff. The lighting, the music, the overall staging -- it was just so good. It reminded me a bit of Amadeus, the most recent show I did, in the way that the music is so interwined with the story. The scenes of Halder speaking over the music really brought me back to Salieri's impassioned, verbal breakdowns over Mozart's music.

The music was phenomenal. The lighting was as well -- the sudden shifts as we jump from one thing to another? It's simple, yes, in theory, but the execution was just so flawlessly smooth and perfect each time. The red lighting to represent flames during the book burnings and the final scene with Maurice was perfect. It really encapsulated the entire feeling of the scenes --- I might be looking into it too much, but the way Halder's face is completely cast in red when he looks at Maurice? Oh my god.

The acting was obviously the stand-out thing, but combined with the clever staging (I was quite excited when it opened up at the end, and then immediately unexcited when I remembered what was happening), lighting and sounds??? I was sitting there with my mouth open struggling to finish my orders because I was just so engaged by it all.

I don't know her name, but the woman who played Anne/Helen/The mother/the nazi guy was AMAZING. I am so obsessed with her. The scenes where she rapidly switches between one character and another? Fucking perfect oh my godd. The lighting shifts when she switches to the dementia-ridden mother was amazing, but only worked so well because of her incredible acting. There was such a stark difference between each of her characters. Actors really amaze me, I've got to say. Maurice's actor was great too - I loved his small movements and the way he spoke.

I don't need to say how great David was, because we all know.

Very much worth the watch, please check it out -- theatre nerd or not

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Who Is The Most Basic White Dude in a Suit? David Tennant Edition

He plays so many, kudos to the guy who took the time to submit all these guys one after another.

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Good Starring David Tennant to Screen Across Cinemas as Part of National Theatre Live Event

Good Starring #DoctorWho's David Tennant to Screen Across Cinemas as Part of National Theatre Live Event

The West End run of Good, a drama set in Nazi Germany starring David Tennant in the lead role, closed on 24th December 2022 but those who haven’t been able to see it at the Harold Pinter Theatre will be able to catch a streamed performance later this year. Widely praised by critics, the production will be streamed under the National Theatre Live banner, which brings recorded performances to…

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David Tennant as John Halder in Good (Oct - Dec 2022)

for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)

Photographer: Johan Persson

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I just can't stop thinking "Just how many "good" men like John Halder were so brainwashed into believing the Nazis were doing nothing wrong" and "how many people are now brainwashed into thinking that Israel is doing nothing wrong". Gosh! The history is so repeating itself and so many people are still trying not to believe or just aren't aware that this is a genocide.

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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

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John Metcalfe - Tree - a modern classical suite with both chamber and orchestral arrangements.

Tree is eight immersive compositions that take the listener through twenty-four hours in the life of one of nature’s most majestic creations The Durutti Column viola-playing master - a composer and arranger for the likes of U2, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel and Blur, as well as co-founder with Tony Wilson of the Factory Classical label – had been composing music spontaneously, instinctively, when the idea of Tree arrived. The album came from a desire in John Metcalfe to write at scale – perhaps a natural reaction for a composer writing out of the silences and solitude of our recent pandemic years. “The pieces I was writing were big and trying to be bigger, so I knew they had to be to do with something – and then I thought about one of the most profound experiences of my life.” He is referring to seeing Tāne Mahuta as an adult, the largest known living kauri tree in the world. Set in an ancient subtropical rainforest on the North Island of Aoreatoa / New Zealand, John had spent his early childhood living in that part of the world after his British father had "escaped there as a ten-pound Pom". Having emigrated to England as a child, he went back to New Zealand with his wife when he was 26. He explains, “…we thought we’d tick something off the tourist list, and I thought we're going to see trees, which is great – but we weren’t prepared for what happened.”. They both cried when they found Tãne Mahuta, and Metcalfe is still amazed at the reaction he had: “… as an atheist, it was the closest I’ve ever got to a spiritual moment… there was something extraordinary about the atmosphere in the forest and the size of this tree, and the sense that it had been there a long time. It was about the protection it gave, and the sense of connection we had with that protection.” Written for live players and recorded in Abbey Road Studios to convey human connection at scale, Tree imagines what it would be like to be sat completely still under a tree that you love, being alive to the ever-shifting interplay of light, colour, weather and sound. Shimmering pulsating layered tracks take the listener on a voyage that takes in the dawn chorus, depicted by conversations between chirruping woodwind and staccato strings, through to the solemnity of dusk and into the playful night. The album at times summons up the folkloric power of ancient forests through an emotional crescendo in emotion and sound, before bringing us back to sunrise, and a reflection on the journey we’ve taken. Tree isn’t just about Tãne Mahuta, explains Metcalfe: “It could be about any tree – they’re all very magical.” This record isn’t a political statement, but it's clear to him that as science progresses, and as climate breakdown progresses, people are trying to find deeper ways to understand and cherish nature. "It’s about the music that people are trying to create to connect with things that are huge and beautiful and inexplicable around them." Tree is John's beautiful, emotional attempt. "My album's about describing our relationship with something as every-day and extraordinary as a tree, and how it can be an incredibly important part of who we are.”  All tracks written, produced and performed by John Metcalfe Additional Strings on Tracks 1,3,5,6,8 Violins Everton Nelson (leader), Natalia Bonner, Charlie Brown, Emil Chakalov, Alison Dods, Louisa Fuller, Richard George, Raja Halder, Marianne Haynes, Rick Koster, Oli Langford, Steve Morris, Charles Mutter, Tom Pigott-Smith, Cathy Thompson, Debbie Widdup Violas, Peter Lale, Reiad Chibah, Gillianne Haddow, Kate Musker, Andy Parker, Rachel Robson Celli Richard Harwood, Adrian Bradbury, Ian Burdge, David Daniels, James Douglas, Julia Graham, Sophie Harris, Tony Woollard, Double Basses Stacey Watton, Roger Linley, Richard Pryce, Lucy Shaw Woodwind on Tracks 3,4,5,6,7,8 Oboe Alun Derbyshire Bassoon Sarah Burnet Strings fixed by Jenny Goshawk for Isobel Griffiths Ltd. Cover Design; Marc Bessant

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Hiya, I hope you're doing great, I always love seeing everything you post and have to say. I just really needed someone else in the DT fandom to celebrate all the awesome David content lately. Georgia's last few Instagram posts make me especially happy because David seems so happy and healthy lately. He seems so much more energized and fuller faced and just like he's finally gotten time to relax, and celebrate birthday 2.0, and I'm so glad, because he just seems to work nonstop so often and for a while there, even David's limitless energy seemed a bit lower than usual. Though, that being said, I'm still very much looking forward to him and Michael soon promoting GO2!

(Putting these together, since they're all related to the fake birthday post from Georgia from last week.)

Anon #1: Aw, thank you so much! That is very sweet of you and I truly appreciate it. And I'm so glad you felt comfortable enough to come celebrate all this David content and share your thoughts with me.

Let's get a few visuals up here so we can discuss. These (as I recall) were posted just a day or two apart, so they go well together:

I agree that David has been working so incredibly hard lately (not that he ever doesn't work hard, of course), but something in particular about Good and the role of John Halder really seemed to take a toll on him. You could see it in countless stage door pictures--the way his face looked thin, and (as you said) his seemingly limitless energy starting to flag. It was such a beautiful thing for him to be out there at all, signing programs and meeting fans after giving 110% out on stage, night after night.

But there seems to be this part of David (hello, Scottish Presbyterian upbringing) that feels like he always has to be working, and grateful to others for showing up to see him work. I think part of it is David just knowing what it's like to be a fan and so not wanting to let fans down, but it does seem to result in him not always taking care of himself as much as he should.

So yes, the change and contrast from a month or so ago to now is incredibly heartwarming to see. David does indeed seem very happy and healthy and full of renewed energy. (I also wonder if this could perhaps be due to Michael being in London for that BAFTA Cymru event last week, and the two of them hopefully seeing each other while he was there... 👀)

Also Anon #3: I definitely do see a little bit of Phileas hair going on (David's hair is just fucking gorgeous when it's a little longer, so whether it's related to Phileas or not, I am here for it). We know that ATWI80D has been renewed for a second season, though I am not sure when filming is set to begin--and I imagine we'd see the return of the moustache (ye gods) as well when that happens, so I don't think we're there just yet.

We really do have so many things involving David to look forward to this year (the filming of ATWI80D season 2, GO season 2, and of course the press tour with Michael). My hope is that David continues to make time to rest and enjoy himself, because as we can see, it does his body good (and so does Michael). David's (real) birthday is coming up next month, too, so fingers crossed we get some lovely content from Georgia then as well. Thanks for writing in, Anons! xx

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the actual Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

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One good man and a slippery slope

"One good man and a slippery slope", a review of CP Taylor's play 'Good', screened by the National Theatre Live in South Africa this week.

THE things that would worry me. Herr Professor John Halder (David Tennant) in CP Taylor’s brilliant play Good, screened by the National Theatre Live in South Africa this week. Photograph courtesy imdb DO YOU THINK of yourself as basically a moral person? Yes, you may have broken a rule or two in your life. You may have left a relationship or so with pain inflicted and pain suffered. You may have…

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the movie good and south africans who change their shirts 5.9.2023

Yesterday I had a picnic and this morning I was sorry  that ,  because of reasons connected with the demonstrations. I  had not held it today. I am so glad I did not.

We went to see the  London production of Good by C.P Taylor not knowing what to expect and thinking if was another  movie about the fascist movement 

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As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences. David Tennant returns to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful political plays.

By the time it ended I was in tears.  I suddenly found myself crying .You really have to see it. It started off as any other movie about that period.  Hard to watch but not more than any other movies of that period. I don't want to spoil it for anyone. So maybe if you are intending to see it, don't read this. But the change started after what was for me, how can I say it, a connection to the Holocaust, to the slow development of an ordinary man to a monster. Which is what happened  here.

A man just before Kristallnacht, speaking to his Jewish friend, turning into a fascist animal.  A man in ordinary civilian  clothing  of a university professor, turning as he slowly undresses and then  puts on his Nazi uniform...suddenly he is the ARCHETYPE of every  Nazi we have seen with the glasses and uniform glaring at the Jews and blaming them for what is happening to them....just as today we blame the Palestinians. Kristallnacht and then the camps with the orchestra.... it all built up. The last part consisted of him going to one  of the  concentration camps and, as he arrived there, he heard the music of a band.  I was so glad that I had held the picnic the previous day as I knew I could not have faced sitting with friends in the forest and each time thinking of some part  of the movie. 

The reason was   I had a memory of years ago. While watching the documentary, I  was informed that my oldest nephew, Oscar,  was in the hospital.  My friend , Ziva, reminded me some years later that I had had a picnic that Saturday and suddenly she saw that I  had disappeared and she had found me ,somewhere in the area, sitting and crying. I told her Oscar was in hospital and that  I had a terrible feeling. That is what felt today. I just have a bad feeling. Things are going to get much worse before they get better.

And I cried for myself and my lost dream. .

I went to the demonstration in the night. But that night I kept on having a dream that I was walking in a dark tunnel with no light. Eventually I got up and really woke myself up  so as to stop the dream.  

Before the demonstration Saturday night  there was a meeting of the bereaved families, Israelis and Palestinian. Our Minister of education as he calls himself has refused to allow them to speak in the schools. Another way of shutting down voices. Just as one of the most important schools of Herzlia has refused to allow the members of the bereaved families of Israelis and Palestinians to meet in their school. I phoned the school and said I welcomed them as they were joining the fascists of the government. They are one of the most important schools of the area. Frightening that they are so easily frightened  into silence. 

Two people spoke. One, a woman whose father was killed 40 years after her uncle died in the 1948 war. Her father was murdered by over 40 strokes with an ax by two of his workers and the Palestinian who has also lost more than one member of his family. And yet these people arise and speak in the voice of peace. It makes me wonder about South Africans who are so proud to tell people that they left SA because of the apartheid and have settled in Israel and Australia and yet, suddenly, they have changed their tune.

A South African to whom a friend sent a letter I wrote earlier on last week replied in a very militant tone  This was the last line. 

All too frequently savage methods are the only language savages understand....

It reminds me of the South Africans here who like to forget that the Palestinians  also have rights and are oppressed. As I thought, he is probably very proud to tell people in a righteous tone that he left SA because of apartheid. His morality  when it concerned the Africans  changes when it comes to the Palestinians and he himself is no longer directly concerned.  I despise people like him. He reminds me of the SS officer in this letter  Had he been an Afrikaner he would probably have been a member of the Broederbond. One of the most violent setters here in the Hebron area was an Afrikaner who became a Jew and whose children today are as bad as  he is. 

Please also keep in mind that according to international law all settlements in the occupied areas are illegal. 

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Title: Thor: Tales of Asgard

Rating: NR

Director: Sam Liu

Cast: Matthew Wolf, Rick Gomez, Alistair Abell, Tara Strong, Paul Dobson, Chris Britton, Clancy Brown, Brian Drummond, Jay Brazeau, Ashleigh Ball, Ron Halder, Cathy Weseluck, Michael Dobson, John Novak, Mark Acheson, Mark Gibbon, Jillian Michaels, Ty Olsson

Release year: 2011

Genres: adventure, action

Blurb: Hungry for adventure, Thor secretly embarks on the journey of a lifetime joined by his loyal brother Loki, whose budding sorcery equips him with just enough magic to conjure up trouble, along with the Warriors Three - a band of boastful travellers reluctant to set sail on any adventure that might actually be dangerous. But what starts out as a harmless treasure hunt quickly turns deadly, and Thor must now prove himself worthy of the destiny he covets by saving Asgard itself.

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GOOD by C.P. Taylor directed by Dominic Cooke NT Live Encore Screening   🎭 @captheatres @NTLive #Theatrereview #WhatsonEdi #Edinburgh #Theatre

GOOD by C.P. Taylor directed by Dominic Cooke NT Live Encore Screening   🎭 @captheatres @NTLive #Theatrereview #WhatsonEdi #Edinburgh #Theatre

GOOD by C.P. Taylor directed by Dominic Cooke Review by Kelly Lacey I had the pleasure of attending the NT Live Encore Screening of GOOD at the Capital Theatres in Edinburgh, and it was a truly unforgettable experience. David Tennant, best known for his iconic portrayal of Doctor Who, delivered a breathtaking performance as John Halder, a German professor caught up in the tumultuous events of…

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After reading till the very end of last night, I’ve read 51 books in 2020. I didn’t start out with a reading goal in numbers, which makes my list very gratifying to look at. Here it is

non-fiction

Savarkar by Vikram Sampath

The Red Tenda of Bologna by John Berger

Justice by Michael Sandel

Bookshops by Jorge Carrion

Inferior by Angela Saini

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

A Brief History of the Vikings by Jonathan Clements

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Blood Island by Deep Halder

India Moving by Chinmay Tumbe

The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan

The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Times by Will Durant

History Men by T.C.A. Raghavan

Hunting Che by Mitch Weiss and Kevin Maurer

You Say Potato by David & Ben Crystal

The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson

Three Responses to the Indian Ideology by Partha Chatterjee, Sudeepta Kaviraj, Nivedita Menon

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Shipwreck by Sam Willis

On Photography by Susan Sontag

Letters to Poseidon by Cees Nooteboom

fiction

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman

If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Ghachar Gochar by Vivek Shanbag (trans. Srinath Perur)

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

In A Free State by V. S. Naipaul

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Handful of Nuts by Ruskin Bond

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

The Light of All That Falls by James Islington (part 3 of The Licanius Trilogy) 

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond (reread)

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Circe by Madeline Miller

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

रक्तचंदन by G. A. Kulkarni

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera