{"id":1931,"date":"2019-01-24T16:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2019-01-24T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:32:57","slug":"helen-brooks-in-conversation-with-andrew-gordon-watkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/01\/24\/helen-brooks-in-conversation-with-andrew-gordon-watkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Brooks in conversation with Andrew Gordon-Watkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts<\/a> is delighted to present\u00a0<em>Behind the Scenes: In Conversation with Andrew Gordon-Watkins\u00a0<\/em>on Thursday 7 February 2019 at 4pm in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/timetabling\/rooms\/room.html?room=APHRA_Thea\">Aphra Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotlight.com\/7979-7832-0468\">Andrew Gordon-Watkins<\/a> has worked in musical theatre for over 15 years and is currently touring with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenwright.com\/portfolio\/saturday-night-fever\/\">Saturday Night Fever<\/a><\/em>. Andrew\u2019s career began with a Drama degree at the University of Exeter, after which he trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. Since then he has worked in London&#8217;s West End theatre district, where he was in <em>Young Frankenstein<\/em> at the Garrick Theatre in 2018, as well as internationally. Andrew&#8217;s musical credits include <em>Kiss Me Kate<\/em>, <em>The Producers<\/em>, <em>Priscilla Queen of the Desert<\/em>, <em>La Cage Aux Folles<\/em>, <em>Legally Blonde<\/em>, <em>We Will Rock You<\/em>, <em>Evita<\/em>, <em>Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>, <em>Houdini the Musical<\/em>, <em>Treasure Island<\/em> <em>and the Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>, <em>Hello Dolly<\/em>, <em>Annie<\/em>, <em>The Wild Party<\/em>, <em>Fax of Life<\/em>, and <em>Marilyn the Musical<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew will be talking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/brooks.html\">Dr Helen Brooks<\/a>,\u00a0Reader in Theatre and Cultural History in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/\">School of Arts<\/a>, about his love of musical theatre, the development of his career, and the highs and lows of working in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free to attend, and is a must for anyone interested in musical theatre, or with an interest in working in theatre and the creative arts.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see the events page:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/newsandevents\/calendar.html?eid=36757\">www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/newsandevents\/calendar.html?eid=36757<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To register for a free ticket, please follow this link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2CDuGjW\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2CDuGjW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Arts is delighted to present\u00a0Behind the Scenes: In Conversation with Andrew Gordon-Watkins\u00a0on Thursday 7 February 2019 at 4pm in the Aphra Theatre. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/01\/24\/helen-brooks-in-conversation-with-andrew-gordon-watkins\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":1941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,112,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"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\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}