{"id":880,"date":"2019-05-28T22:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T22:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=880"},"modified":"2019-05-28T22:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T22:00:59","slug":"armed-forces-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=880","title":{"rendered":"ARMED FORCES DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Arcola Theatre, London, February 2013. Part of &#8216;The Miniaturists 39.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-1.jpg\" alt=\"Armed Forces Day Arcola 1\" class=\"wp-image-240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Robin Crouch as Soldier, Arcola.) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Directed by Nadia Papachronopoulou.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cast: Robin Crouch, Tony Bell, Kate Collison, Jessica Sichel.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;What do you think soldiers do? Huh? Do you imagine we\u2019re just gentlemen playing cricket out in the desert? What are you so shocked about? I mean, come on, even if you don\u2019t agree with what I did, you have to admire my courage, right? My fortitude, right? Right?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Below; Jessica Sichel as Poppy and Tony Bell as Douglas, Arcola)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Armed Forces Day Arcola 3\" class=\"wp-image-242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-3-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-2-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"Armed Forces Day Arcola 2\" class=\"wp-image-241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-2-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Armed-Forces-Day-Arcola-2.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Present day Britain. A soldier gets on a train and&nbsp;sits down&nbsp;with&nbsp;a middle class&nbsp;couple and their teenage daughter. But why is there blood on the soldier&#8217;s uniform? And why isn&#8217;t the train moving? A dark satire on our unquestioning&nbsp;admiration&nbsp;for the armed forces.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also performed at Riverside Studios for the Off Cut Festival, October 2012, directed by Ng Choon Ping, with James Unsworth, Zara Radford, Darrie Gardner and John Hoye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcola Theatre, London, February 2013. Part of &#8216;The Miniaturists 39.&#8217; (Robin Crouch as Soldier, Arcola.) Directed by Nadia Papachronopoulou. Cast: Robin Crouch, Tony Bell, Kate Collison, Jessica Sichel. &#8220;What do you think soldiers do? Huh? Do you imagine we\u2019re just gentlemen playing cricket out in the desert? What are you so shocked about? I mean, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=880\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ARMED FORCES DAY&#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-880","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}