{"id":302,"date":"2015-06-12T09:11:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T09:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=302"},"modified":"2015-07-03T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T09:25:46","slug":"lear-at-the-new-vic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/06\/12\/lear-at-the-new-vic\/","title":{"rendered":"Lear at the New Vic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and students enjoyed Northern Broadside&#8217;s production of <em>King Lear<\/em> at the New Vic theatre last night. Barry Rutter, the company&#8217;s actor-manager and driving creative force, took the title role. The production was directed by Jonathan Miller.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> gave it 5 stars, which I thought a little generous (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2015\/mar\/08\/king-lear-northern-broadsides-review-jonathan-miller\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2015\/mar\/08\/king-lear-northern-broadsides-review-jonathan-miller<\/a>). In comparison with the energy and dynamism of other Broadside&#8217;s productions, this one felt static; but perhaps this reflected the sense of transition from the old order, by way of tragic hubris, to the new. Rutter brought touching moments to Lear&#8217;s downfall, but lacked the authority of a flawed tyrant at the beginning to give the necessary scale to his descent.<\/p>\n<p>The fantastic story, of familial and political loyalty and conflict, carried the production to its famous conclusion (yes, if you don&#8217;t know it, you&#8217;ll have to read it or see it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and students enjoyed Northern Broadside&#8217;s production of King Lear at the New Vic theatre last night. Barry Rutter, the company&#8217;s actor-manager and driving creative force, took the title role. The production was directed by Jonathan Miller. The Guardian gave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/06\/12\/lear-at-the-new-vic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3710,40445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-the-culture-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}