{"id":378,"date":"2015-11-11T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=378"},"modified":"2015-11-11T14:34:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:34:35","slug":"norther-broadsides-the-winters-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/11\/11\/norther-broadsides-the-winters-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Norther Broadsides&#8217; The Winter&#8217;s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and students were at the New Vic to see Northern Broadsides interpretation of <em>The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/em>. It was, as ever, a seductive experience of precision acting and innovative staging. It would be unfair to single out one performance from a faultless cast, but I\u2019m going to anyway. Conrad Nelson as the king, Leontes, was magnificent in his brooding, introspective delusion. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s a lovely guy in real life, but he plays a baddie very well (his Iago, played opposite Lennie Henry\u2019s Othello, was a study in malevolence). The rest of the cast were just magnificent.<br \/>\nBroadsides are well known for mixing drama and music in inventive ways and the turn from tragedy to romance, the \u2018problem\u2019 of this problem play, signaled the setting of Shakespeare\u2019s verse to many musical genres, including Bob Dylan, and a folk\/hippy design. There can\u2019t been many interpretations of Shakespeare which include Irish dancing, but there should be.<br \/>\nWe all departed stage left, pursued by a bear. Next stop Godot!<br \/>\nBroadsides\u2019 trailer for the production can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northern-broadsides.co.uk\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and students were at the New Vic to see Northern Broadsides interpretation of The Winter\u2019s Tale. It was, as ever, a seductive experience of precision acting and innovative staging. It would be unfair to single out one performance from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/11\/11\/norther-broadsides-the-winters-tale\/\">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":[3710,40459,40445,40444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-reviews","category-the-culture-room","category-the-student-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","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=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}