{"id":1150,"date":"2024-01-12T16:10:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thds2.wpcomstaging.com\/?page_id=1150"},"modified":"2024-02-28T19:54:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:54:52","slug":"2022-a-bunch-of-amateurs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=1150","title":{"rendered":"2022 &#8211; A Bunch of Amateurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/abunch.png?w=397\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1012\" style=\"width:295px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Playwrights &#8211; Ian Hislop &amp; Nick Newman<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Location &#8211; Harrogate Studio Theatre<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director &#8211; Gill McVey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jefferson Steele &#8211; Stuart Newsome<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dorothy &#8211; Janet Wilson\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mary &#8211; Helen Mitchell<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nigel &#8211; David Williams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Denis &#8211; Richard Naylor\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jessica &#8211; Natasha Mcvey\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lauren &#8211; Anna Garlick\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Keen to boost his flagging career, fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steele arrives in England to play King Lear in Stratford &#8211; only to find that this is not the birthplace of the Bard, but a sleepy Suffolk village. And instead of Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench, the cast are a bunch of amateurs trying to save their theatre from developers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jefferson\u2019s monstrous ego, vanity and insecurity are tested to the limit by the enthusiastic am-dram thespians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As acting worlds collide and Jefferson\u2019s career implodes, he discovers some truths about himself \u2013 along with his inner Lear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast Keen to boost his flagging career, fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steele arrives in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}