{"id":855,"date":"2019-05-28T21:47:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T21:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=855"},"modified":"2019-05-28T21:47:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T21:47:49","slug":"dare-me-to-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=855","title":{"rendered":"DARE ME TO THE DESERT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&nbsp;DARE ME TO THE DESERT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kings Head, London, March 2009. Zeitgeist Theatre&#8217;s &#8216;World At One.&#8217; Winner of the Zeitgeist New Play competition 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by Hal Chambers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cast: Jack Baldwin, Richard Maxted, Emily O&#8217;Connor, Jace Desay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provocative&nbsp;journalist Jack Feltham is horrified when he learns that a British soldier &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; killed in Iraq had been inspired to enlist by his pro-war columns and even&nbsp;more horrified when that same soldier appears in his living room, dripping&nbsp;blood all over his carpet and asking for a hug. But Jack has even bigger&nbsp;problems on his plate. A young Muslim man has been brutally attacked at a&nbsp;London mosque and once again it\u2019s being&nbsp;blamed on something Jack wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;DARE ME TO THE DESERT The Kings Head, London, March 2009. Zeitgeist Theatre&#8217;s &#8216;World At One.&#8217; Winner of the Zeitgeist New Play competition 2008. Directed by Hal Chambers. Cast: Jack Baldwin, Richard Maxted, Emily O&#8217;Connor, Jace Desay. Provocative&nbsp;journalist Jack Feltham is horrified when he learns that a British soldier &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; killed in Iraq had been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=855\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DARE ME TO THE DESERT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-855","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}