{"id":14979,"date":"2014-06-26T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T10:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14979"},"modified":"2014-06-27T10:17:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T09:17:52","slug":"how-often-do-you-go-to-the-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14979","title":{"rendered":"How often do you go to the theatre?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although we live in London which has a multitude of theatres, we see far, far more films than plays. But this week was my birthday so I booked for us to see two plays: the theatrical productions of the two Hilary Mantel novels <em>&#8220;Wolf Hall&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0[my review of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#WH1\">here]<\/a> and <em>&#8220;Bring Up The Bodies&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>[my review of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#BUTB\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The two plays are by the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aldwych-theatre.co.uk\/Wolf-Hall.html\">Aldwych Theatre<\/a>. They are really fine performances, but the staging is very bare (there are numerous changes of location and time) and there are a lot of characters (about 35 in each play).<\/p>\n<p>Comparing the cinema with the theatre, i have to say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not all London theatres are air-conditioned (the Aldwych is)<\/li>\n<li>Vision is not always unobstructed (we had tall people in front of us both times)<\/li>\n<li>Actors cannot use natural voices but have to project<\/li>\n<li>The seats are not always comfortable (London theatres were built for smaller people)<\/li>\n<li>You have to book in advance and cannot just walk in<\/li>\n<li>The tickets are so expensive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But we will keeping going to the theatre from time to time. It does suffer something different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we live in London which has a multitude of theatres, we see far, far more films than plays. But this week was my birthday so I booked for us to see two plays: the theatrical productions of the two Hilary Mantel novels &#8220;Wolf Hall&#8221;\u00a0[my review of the book here] and &#8220;Bring Up The Bodies&#8221;\u00a0[my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14988,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14979\/revisions\/14988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}