{"id":1214,"date":"2024-01-12T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thds2.wpcomstaging.com\/?page_id=1214"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:33:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:33:06","slug":"july-2016-quartet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=1214","title":{"rendered":"July 2016 &#8211; Quartet"},"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\/quartet-aug-2016.jpg?w=596\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1215\" style=\"width:481px;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>Playwright &#8211; Ronald Harwood<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Location &#8211; Harrogate Studio Theatre<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director &#8211; Stuart Kellett<\/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<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wilf &#8211; Paul Dunstan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cissie &#8211; Sue Rawson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reg &#8211; Chris Rawson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jean &#8211; Judi Methven<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>On a summer\u2019s day in a home for retired Opera singers, three old friends, once the brightest stars of the opera world, are joking and reminiscing, when their tranquility is shattered by a surprise new arrival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new entrant to the sunny music room that is the bailiwick of the three elites is Jean, whose operatic success is past history. Her source of income is the occasional small royalty from a recording, such as the recent reissue of \u201cRigoletto\u201d in which she and the other three starred. Her arrival coincides with the home\u2019s annual celebration of the birthday of Giuseppe Verdi (&#8216;Joe Green\u2019 according to Wilf). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the ensuing memories of personal and professional glories and disaster are unspooled, these operatic has-beens reveal sides of themselves besides the eccentric characteristics by which they are defined. The play celebrates the power of the human spirit and the eccentricities of ageing, particularly problematic for those of the Theatrical profession, as stars slip, along with busts and waistlines! \uf110<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast On a summer\u2019s day in a home for retired Opera singers, three old friends, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}