{"id":50678,"date":"2015-07-17T19:52:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=50678"},"modified":"2015-07-17T19:52:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T16:52:32","slug":"the-siege-receives-outstanding-praise-on-uk-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2015\/07\/the-siege-receives-outstanding-praise-on-uk-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Siege receives outstanding praise on UK tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/productions-productions\/the-siege\/\"><em>The Siege<\/em><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0UK tour is over, and what a journey it has been! The play received exceptional reviews during the tour, which included ten venues across Britain and twenty performances of which almost all\u00a0were completely sold-out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOne would struggle to find a more authentic piece of theatre, or indeed one that speaks to such a brutally urgent case of injustice\u201d stated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicreviews.com\/the-siege-battersea-arts-centre-london\/\"><span class=\"s4\">The Public Reviews<\/span><\/a>, while\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2015\/may\/21\/the-siege-battersea-arts-theatre-review-bethlehem-church-of-the-nativity\"><span class=\"s4\">The Guardian<\/span><\/a>\u00a0wrote: \u201cIt develops into an unexpectedly compelling theatrical experience with a rough and ready energy, and, in the very act of its telling, speaks for the voiceless and forgotten.\u201d Read more praise for The Siege\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/productions-productions\/the-siege\/\"><span class=\"s4\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">The Siege tour may be over but our presence in Britain is not.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/friends-supporters\/uk\/\"><span class=\"s4\">The Freedom Theatre UK\u00a0Friends<\/span><\/a>, a network of over 300 people in Britain, will continue to be involved in the theatre\u2019s activities and we hope that you will too!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Siege\u00a0UK tour is over, and what a journey it has been! The play received exceptional reviews during the tour, which included ten venues across Britain and twenty performances of which almost all\u00a0were completely sold-out. \u201cOne would struggle to find a more authentic piece of theatre, or indeed one that speaks to such a brutally [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-theatre-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}