{"id":791,"date":"2024-01-11T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thds2.wpcomstaging.com\/?page_id=791"},"modified":"2024-02-23T21:10:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T21:10:24","slug":"september-2007-playhouse-creatures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=791","title":{"rendered":"September 2007 &#8211; Playhouse Creatures"},"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\/playhouse-2.png?w=550\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-793\" style=\"width:422px;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; April de Angelis<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Location &#8211; Harrogate Studio Theatre<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director &#8211; Dermot Hill<\/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>Mrs Betterton &#8211; Judy Methven<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doll Common &#8211; Sue Rawson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nell Gwyn &#8211; Katherine Morse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mrs Farley &#8211; Rhiannon Pattison<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mrs Marshall &#8211; Jemma Thompson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Playhouse Creatures is a comic drama. The year is 1669 &#8211; a bawdy and troublesome time in Restoration London. The theatres have just re-opened after 17 years of suppression under the Puritans, encouraging a great upsurge in dramatic actitivty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of vital importance to the development of drama was the entrance of the first English actresses upon the stage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author has taken five famous figures &#8211; Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton &#8211; and given us a fascinating look at the precarious lot of actresses at that time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A moving and often comic account of the true lives of Restoration actresses (with some earthy language and bawdy situations).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast Playhouse Creatures is a comic drama. The year is 1669 &#8211; a bawdy and [&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-791","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/791","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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/791\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}