{"id":391,"date":"2015-10-10T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/expertstatus.org\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2015-10-10T19:48:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T19:48:51","slug":"seasonal-melodrama-and-the-panto-that-never-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/seasonal-melodrama-and-the-panto-that-never-happens","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal Melodrama and the Panto That Never Happens!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have chosen two cracking one-act plays for our winter extravaganza.\u00a0 This time we are performing another of David Tristram&#8217;s fabulously witty &#8220;Little Grimley&#8221; spoofs on the trials of the serially failing and dysfunctional Litte Grimley drama group (only of course we have renamed it &#8220;Last Panto in Berrow&#8221;.\u00a0 The Panto never actually happens but there are banana skins, a panto horse as well as a host of other problems to cause major hilarity and mayhem&#8230;\u00a0 The last frantic sequence where everything is going wrong is going to take some dedicated practice that&#8217;s for sure!<\/p>\n<p>This is a shot of the nag&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/expertstatus.org\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20150919-WA0000-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-393\" src=\"http:\/\/expertstatus.org\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20150919-WA0000-1-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20150919-WA0000 (1)\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20150919-WA0000-1-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20150919-WA0000-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20150919-WA0000-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 85vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>The other half of the performance is a classic victorian melodrama which we hope to play with excess ham&#8230;\u00a0 Some of the lines are a bit tricky and causing the cast some difficulties in a tongue twistering sort of fashion.\u00a0 Fear not we&#8217;ll make an extraordinary effort to get our teeth round the words by December&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/expertstatus.org\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moustache-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-395\" src=\"http:\/\/expertstatus.org\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moustache-1-1024x337.png\" alt=\"moustache-1\" width=\"540\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moustache-1-1024x337.png 1024w, https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moustache-1-300x98.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 85vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have chosen two cracking one-act plays for our winter extravaganza.\u00a0 This time we are performing another of David Tristram&#8217;s fabulously witty &#8220;Little Grimley&#8221; spoofs on the trials of the serially failing and dysfunctional Litte Grimley drama group (only of course we have renamed it &#8220;Last Panto in Berrow&#8221;.\u00a0 The Panto never actually happens but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/seasonal-melodrama-and-the-panto-that-never-happens\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seasonal Melodrama and the Panto That Never Happens!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}