{"id":393,"date":"2024-01-09T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thds2.wpcomstaging.com\/?page_id=393"},"modified":"2025-01-15T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T22:50:45","slug":"and-so-to-harrogate-theatre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=393","title":{"rendered":"And so&#8230;to Harrogate Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <strong>January 1962<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cSimon and Laura\u201d by Alan Melville was the play which began our connection with the Harrogate Theatre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Old Swan had become a thriving hotel open to conferences and exhibitions and therefore was no longer available for use so regularly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we turned our attention to the Harrogate Theatre (then known as The Opera House) and arrangements were made to perform there twice a year as well as still performing at the Little Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The HDS has always and will continue to support and work with Harrogate Theatre. HDS members ran the gallery for three seasons, manning it on Saturday nights as well as helping actors and assisting with wardrobe and properties. Since 1962 we have raised money for the theatre by putting on shows, and several members have served on the theatre board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1964<\/strong>&nbsp;First open air production in the Valley Gardens \u2013 \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d by William Shakespeare. This was a great success and half the proceeds were given to local charities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Previous<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 1962&nbsp;\u201cSimon and Laura\u201d by Alan Melville was the play which began our connection [&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-393","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}