{"id":896,"date":"2019-05-28T22:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T22:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=896"},"modified":"2019-05-28T22:09:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T22:09:06","slug":"protect-and-survive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=896","title":{"rendered":"PROTECT AND SURVIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>VAULT Festival 2016, The Vaults, London, March 2016. A Shout In The Dark Production. Directed by Andrew Pritchard. Cast: Karl Mercer, Carla Rose and Josh Husselbee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?attachment_id=555\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Protect-Survive-Vault-photo-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Protect &amp; Survive Vault photo 1\" class=\"wp-image-555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Protect-Survive-Vault-photo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Protect-Survive-Vault-photo-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Protect-Survive-Vault-photo-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Protect-Survive-Vault-photo-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Karl Mercer as Jack and Carla Rose as Kirsty. Photo by Andrew Pritchard.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England, 1984. The Cold War casts a shadow across the country. Farmer&#8217;s son Jack lives with the knowledge of a secret government nuclear bunker beneath his family&#8217;s land. When he meets siblings Kirsty and Charlie, newly arrived in the village from London, he invites them to&nbsp;break into&nbsp;the bunker with him. But their journey unearths buried secrets, desires and grief, and not everyone emerges alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?attachment_id=556\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Protect-and-Survive-VAULT-image-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Protect and Survive VAULT image 2\" class=\"wp-image-556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Protect-and-Survive-VAULT-image-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Protect-and-Survive-VAULT-image-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Protect-and-Survive-VAULT-image-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Josh Husselbee as Charlie and Karl Mercer as Jack. Photo by Andrew Pritchard.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Twisted fantasies become all the more shocking and have a comic edge \u2013 some of the situations really shouldn\u2019t this funny, and it\u2019s a gift to make people laugh and then feel slightly ashamed for doing so&#8230;.it\u2019s Ross\u2019s humour that makes the play really exciting. Intelligent and genuinely subversive, this comedy has an energy that indicates how much the writer has to say.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onceaweektheatre.com\/?p=2076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Once A Week Theatre<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;the plot takes many twists and turns, constantly keeping the audience on their toes in the darkness of the Vault&#8217;s humid arches \u2014 a perfect setting for Michael Ross&#8217;s lively play&#8230;&#8230; and Shout in the Dark&#8217;s next production Happy To Help coming up in June is one to watch out for.&#8221; <strong>The Morning Star<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VAULT Festival 2016, The Vaults, London, March 2016. A Shout In The Dark Production. Directed by Andrew Pritchard. Cast: Karl Mercer, Carla Rose and Josh Husselbee. Karl Mercer as Jack and Carla Rose as Kirsty. Photo by Andrew Pritchard. England, 1984. The Cold War casts a shadow across the country. Farmer&#8217;s son Jack lives with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PROTECT AND SURVIVE&#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-896","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/896","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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/896\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}