{"id":1240,"date":"2024-01-12T17:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thds2.wpcomstaging.com\/?page_id=1240"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:38:02","slug":"april-2017-entertaining-angels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=1240","title":{"rendered":"April 2017 &#8211; Entertaining Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 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\/angels-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1242\" style=\"width:489px;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; Richard Everett<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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Grace &#8211; Lesley Wheal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sarah &#8211; Sally Bendtson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jo &#8211; Kate Button<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bardolph &#8211; David Williams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ruth &#8211; Janet Wilson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour. Now, following the death of her husband Bardolph, she is enjoying the new-found freedom to do and say exactly as she pleases, usually to the new \u2013 female \u2013 vicar, Sarah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The return of Grace\u2019s eccentric missionary sister Ruth prompts some disturbing revelations, which force her to confront Bardolph\u2019s ghost and the truth of their marriage. At the same time Sarah reveals some un-clergy-like credentials of her own to Grace\u2019s therapist daughter Jo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entertaining Angels asks whether God can be trusted to do anything right at all, \u201cOr is the whole thing a divine exercise in trial and error?\u201d A profound and yet comic play. Thoroughly absorbing and entertaining<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour. Now, [&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-1240","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1240","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=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1240\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}