{"id":876,"date":"2019-05-28T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=876"},"modified":"2019-11-10T03:40:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T03:40:39","slug":"nothing-but-mammals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=876","title":{"rendered":"NOTHING BUT MAMMALS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Old Red Lion Theatre, London, May 2012.&nbsp; REDfest 2012: The Off West End New Writing Awards. Winner of Best Director and Best Cast and Finalist for Best Play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1855661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1855661.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/5110091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/5110091.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/imagesCASKF9TD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"137\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/imagesCASKF9TD.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by Nadia Papachronopoulou<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cast: Antonia Reid. Matt Houlihan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think Izzy challenges our very notions of what it is to be human. I think Izzy, in a way, disproves the whole concept of being \u2018human\u2019 and the arbitrary distinction we draw between ourselves and other animals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoe and Simon have had a baby. But their daughter Izzy isn\u2019t entirely what they expected. A darkly comic play exploring the limits of parental love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/10301293_767824226599693_7445670355081869538_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/10301293_767824226599693_7445670355081869538_n-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"10301293_767824226599693_7445670355081869538_n\" class=\"wp-image-498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/10301293_767824226599693_7445670355081869538_n-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/10301293_767824226599693_7445670355081869538_n-420x300.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/10301293_767824226599693_7445670355081869538_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Above: Matthew Durkan and Felicity Cant in the Front of House Theatre production at The Vaults, December 2014, directed by Arabella Langley. Photo by Patricia Oliviera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nothing But Mammals\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UxIz6WeLh5c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTHING BUT MAMMALS SHORT FILM (2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film version of my short play &#8216;Nothing But Mammals&#8217; (finalist at REDfest 2012:The Off West End New Writing Awards and winner of Best Cast and Best Director). It&#8217;s a Darwinian dark comedy about parenthood, and how we&#8217;re all just animals, really. The cast are Matt Houlihan and Antonia Reid, directed by Tom Ross, based on the stage production directed by Nadia Papachronopoulou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NBM-shoot-pic-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NBM-shoot-pic-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"NBM shoot pic 1\" class=\"wp-image-473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NBM-shoot-pic-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NBM-shoot-pic-1-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NBM-shoot-pic-1-402x300.jpg 402w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NBM-shoot-pic-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Red Lion Theatre, London, May 2012.&nbsp; REDfest 2012: The Off West End New Writing Awards. Winner of Best Director and Best Cast and Finalist for Best Play. Directed by Nadia Papachronopoulou Cast: Antonia Reid. Matt Houlihan. \u201cI think Izzy challenges our very notions of what it is to be human. I think Izzy, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NOTHING BUT MAMMALS&#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-876","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876","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=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}