{"id":4998,"date":"2024-07-30T12:18:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T11:33:19","slug":"park-life-alumna-joanna-adaran-reflects-on-regents-park-open-air-theatre-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2024\/07\/30\/park-life-alumna-joanna-adaran-reflects-on-regents-park-open-air-theatre-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Life: Alumna Joanna Adaran reflects on Regents Park Open Air Theatre role"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Former Music Performance Scholar, Joanna Adaran (Comparative Literature, 2022), spent her early summer performing as \u2018Trunky\u2019, the brave elephant in the musical adaptation of Roald Dahl\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Enormous Crocodile <\/em>at Regent\u2019s Park Open Air Theatre.<\/h3>\n<p>A stalwart member of the Musical Theatre Society during her time at Kent, Joanna has utilised her university extra-curricular experience to forge an exciting career in the arts.<\/p>\n<p>She says; \u2018Being part of this show has been the most wonderful, memorable stage debut to I could ask for. Bringing laughter and fun to the tens of thousands of people that came to see the show over the course of the run was a privilege and felt very special.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m so grateful for all the staff, fellow musicians, and company members [at Kent] who supported me through my journey to a professional stage!\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-61.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5004 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-61.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Music Performance Scholar, Joanna Adaran (Comparative Literature, 2022), spent her early summer performing as \u2018Trunky\u2019, the brave elephant in the musical adaptation of Roald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2024\/07\/30\/park-life-alumna-joanna-adaran-reflects-on-regents-park-open-air-theatre-role\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80151,"featured_media":5006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5012,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/5012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}