{"id":1363,"date":"2017-03-03T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T11:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2017-03-03T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T11:58:14","slug":"voices-of-the-great-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2017\/03\/03\/voices-of-the-great-war\/","title":{"rendered":"VOICES OF THE GREAT WAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 19th February 2017 at the Theatre Royal Brighton, the <a href=\"https:\/\/threadbaretheatre.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Threadbare Theatre Company<\/a>, in association with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatewaysfww.org.uk\/\">Gateways to the First World War<\/a>\u00a0and Dr Helen Brooks, presented two short plays from iconic writers of the era:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oEhLb-k0wek&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">The Boy Comes Home<\/a> by A.A.Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh) and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w4MDJtooQtk\" target=\"_blank\">The New Word<\/a> byJ.M.Barrie (Peter Pan)<\/p>\n<p>which were written during one of the most troubling times our country has ever seen, a war that would change the face of the modern world. Click the links above to watch videos of the productions.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst a war was battled across the sea, British life continued at home with music hall entertainment cheering the spirits. Now the music and plays of this time give us a unique look into life at home 100 years ago so join us for this one-off show re-creating this iconic time.<\/p>\n<p>This exciting event saw both performers and audience on the stage of Theatre Royal Brighton, with a themed refreshments bar in the wings and an opportunity to view some of Theatre Royal Brighton\u2019s archive material in the dressing rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 19th February 2017 at the Theatre Royal Brighton, the Threadbare Theatre Company, in association with Gateways to the First World War\u00a0and Dr Helen Brooks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2017\/03\/03\/voices-of-the-great-war\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39610,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,9112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}