{"id":3678,"date":"2020-05-22T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:35:31","slug":"drama-alumnus-adam-brace-on-donmar-warehouse-online-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/05\/22\/drama-alumnus-adam-brace-on-donmar-warehouse-online-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama alumnus Adam Brace on Donmar Warehouse YouTube channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A play entitled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GSy_QM9yNN8\">Midnight Your Time<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0written by alumnus <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adambrace.co.uk\/\">Adam Brace<\/a>, who studied Drama in the <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts, <\/a>is currently available to watch on <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.donmarwarehouse.com\/\">Donmar Warehouse<\/a>&#8216;s YouTube channel until 7.30pm on Wednesday 27 May 2020. Adam is currently Associate Director at Soho Theatre as well as a dramaturg, script editor and writer.<\/p>\n<p>Every Thursday, Judy tries to talk to her daughter online. Judy calls from Islington; her daughter is in Palestine. It&#8217;s 2010 and retired lawyer Judy is stuck at home, casting around for ways to occupy herself: with a women\u2019s peace league; with local politics; with her daughter\u2019s life. <em>Midnight Your Time<\/em> is a wryly comic and ultimately heartbreaking exploration of what it really means to communicate remotely.<\/p>\n<p>The one-woman play was written specially for actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0703438\/\">Diana Quick<\/a> by Adam in 2011, and was directed by Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtisbrown.co.uk\/client\/michael-longhurst#!\">Michael Longhurst<\/a> with music by <a href=\"http:\/\/isobelwaller-bridge.com\/\">Isobel Waller-Bridge<\/a>. It was recorded via webcam in Diana Quick\u2019s home during the Coronavirus lockdown in April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The play was given a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2020\/may\/14\/midnight-your-time-review-diana-quick-donmar-warehouse-online-theatre\">4-star review<\/a> in <em>The Guardian<\/em>, with critic Arifa Akbar commenting that &#8216;its central theme of remote communication and the socially distant way it was filmed (using a webcam) is fitting for our times, and Adam Brace\u2019s script adapts so well for the screen that it could have been written for the medium&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Midnight Your Time<\/em> is available to watch on YouTube, until Wednesday 27 May, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GSy_QM9yNN8\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GSy_QM9yNN8<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"font_3\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A play entitled Midnight Your Time,\u00a0written by alumnus Adam Brace, who studied Drama in the School of Arts, is currently available to watch on Donmar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/05\/22\/drama-alumnus-adam-brace-on-donmar-warehouse-online-channel\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,167396,50018,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678"}],"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=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}