#jules pendrith

[missholloween]

I didn’t fully understand Anatole’s appeal until I saw Jules Pendrith’s Anatole (Great Comet Australia). They are too hot, too full of swagger, too enchanting. I’d leave my fiancée and my whole life to run away with them. Like, look at them

[leek-e]

Portraits of Dolokhov and Anatole from the Australian production of Comet! Except I gave Dolokhov blue eyes because he needs them.

I recently read War and Peace and Dolokhov is my favourite character. He is so fascinating to me; like, what kind of guy would thrive during wartime? A very fucked up one! I especially enjoy his friendship and subsequent falling-out with Rostov because we get an insight into his worldview. I also love Anatole because he has nothing going on in his brain <3

[sxnyarostova]

CAMS FACE IM CRYING raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimised by anatole vasilyevich kuragin

[arcimboldisworld]

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Eternity Playhouse Sydney 23.08.2023

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Eternity Playhouse Sydney 23.08.2023 #electropopopera #musical #warandpeace #leotolstoi #entdeckung #thegreatcomet #australien

Es ist schon einige Jahre her, seit “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” seine Off-Broadway-Premiere im Jahr 2012 erlebte und 2016 für ein Jahr an den Broadway ging. Nun also eine kleine und sehr feine Produktion in hervorragender Besetzung am Eternity Playhouse in Sydney, es ist die australische Erstaufführung dieses Werkes.. Continue reading Untitled

[reanimatestar]

literally so fucked up that the great comet is making its australian premiere in new south wales instead of where i specifically live.

[agiluvs]

stop making me have gay thoughts jules pendrith! i look at anatole and i feel WEIRD! i feel STRANGE! it makes me want to do things! i don't like that!!!

[susiephone]

re: 'This particular gifset is from a production that cast a woman as Anatole, which is *chef's kiss* IDK if they played the character as female or if it's a crosscast, but either way'

just adding some more info that the actor playing anatole in the darlinghurst production, jules pendrith, is non-binary. anatole was still referred to as a man, he/him etc. throughout

oh, my bad!! thanks for letting me know <3

[ivorypiano]

jules pendrith ily

[thalassous]

jules pendrith watch your fucking back

[chaoticneutralnpc]

saw this live TWICE and it was everything.

(also FYI if you use Todaytix you can get the VIP tickets for $60!! Jules Pendrith (aka Anatole) pulled me up to dance and called me darling and tbh I still haven’t recovered 🫠😭)

babe wake up great comet australia photos just dropped (credit: robert catto)

[leek-e]

I recently watched Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 in Sydney and it was soooo so good. I love live theatre so much holy shit. My favourite character was Anatole, he was so silly. He played the clarinet; in a few scenes it was strapped to his belt like a sword.

Here’s a drawing of Jules Pendrith as Anatole because they were so good, I especially enjoyed the parts where they were scampering around stage and writhing on the floor.

[lesmiserabelles]

jules pendrith (they/them) as anatole / natasha, pierre and the great comet of 1812, darlinghurst theatre company

master: serarichu

[victorfrankingstein]

i am thinking particularly about a production I saw that was done by high schoolers (ew!) where the abduction ended with anatole running away from dolokov (so “anatole come back! betrayed!” was interpreted as anatole leaving dolokov to take the fall) which. uggh. on paper, viewing anatole kuragin at a surface level, it feels like it should be a choice that works because it’s a very clear illustration of anatole’s selfish nature. it also shows him clearly giving up on and abandoning natasha. but idk, I think it’s also just … too easy. when pierre asks natasha at the end if she loved him and he says she doesn’t know but admonishes pierre for calling him a “bad”, even though he undeniably is. I think you’ve lost a part of the experience if the audience doesn’t leave with mixed feelings about anatole. because if the audience doesn’t find anatole charming, we don’t understand and empathize with natasha, so the story doesn’t hit. and I think anatole’s most humanizing moments come through his friendships* and interactions with dolokov, hélène, and (to an extent) pierre.

all this is a long winded way of saying, long live strange, not quite conventionally attractive, wailing, whining, faggy portrayals of anatole kuragin. if you do not play him as a little bit of a gnc you have failed great comet miserably. jules pendrith may you live forever and ever.

there’re a lot of clips of current productions of great comet going around on TikTok and I hate most of them. the pierres are not grizzled enough, the natashas are not desperate enough, and the anatoles… my god, the anatoles

[lesmiserabelles]

jules pendrith as anatole and cameron bajraktarevic-hayward as dolokhov / natasha, pierre and the great comet of 1812, darlinghurst theatre company

master: serarichu

[lesmiserabelles]

grace driscoll as natasha and jules pendrith as anatole / natasha, pierre and the great comet of 1812, darlinghurst theatre company

master: serarichu