Roman Polanski and other horrors

I was in a play in which Roman Polanski, playing Evil itself, was cutting my head off - more sawing it off, really, with an axe.  Ow.  But then a braver girl got him to shoot himself.   Then I'm in Athens trapped in a gristly giant carcass of an emperor but I climb out but Christopher Eccleston is still in there suffering like a crazy saint.  I was sleeping lying on a remote control, you see.  Knobbly.