{"id":951,"date":"2024-01-11T17:18:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T17:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thds2.wpcomstaging.com\/?page_id=951"},"modified":"2024-02-23T16:59:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:59:37","slug":"november-2010-absurd-person-singular","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=951","title":{"rendered":"November 2010 &#8211; Absurd Person Singular"},"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\/aps1.jpg?w=550\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-952\" 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>Playwright &#8211; Alan Ayckbourn<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Location &#8211; Harrogate Studio Theatre<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director &#8211; Richard Naylor<\/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>Sidney &#8211; Stuart Kellett<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jane &#8211; Lesley Wheal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Geoffrey &#8211; Chris Rawson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eva. &#8211; Rachel Conyers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ronald &#8211; Stuart Newsome<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marion &#8211; Jennifer Cowling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the fortunes of three wildly incompatible couples over three consecutive Christmases, Ayckbourn based his drama on the observation that you can discern much about a person from the fit of their kitchen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence we have the Hopcrofts (spotless Formica and sparkling white goods); the Jacksons (knotted pine, filthy oven) and the Brewster-Wrights (temperamental Aga and malfunctioning Victorian boiler). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The play&#8217;s satire of the early 1970s get-rich-quick culture remains prescient, even grimly prophetic: the staggeringly unscrupulous Sidney Hopcroft is an uppity property developer with a taste for manipulative party games who literally has the rest of the characters dancing to his tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast Following the fortunes of three wildly incompatible couples over three consecutive Christmases, Ayckbourn based [&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-951","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/951","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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/951\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}