{"id":156,"date":"2012-09-24T12:12:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2012-09-24T12:12:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:12:17","slug":"off-cut-festival-2012-opens-at-riverside-studios-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Off Cut Festival 2012 opens at Riverside Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/600px-Front_external1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-157\" title=\"600px-Front_external\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/600px-Front_external1-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/600px-Front_external1-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/600px-Front_external1-500x235.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/600px-Front_external1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoffcutfestival.com\/\">Off Cut Festival <\/a>of\u00a0short plays\u00a0opens this week at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. Showcasing some of the best new writing in theatre, 4 groups of plays (28 in total) will do battle\u00a0in a gladiatorial contest to win the votes of a capricious, hard-to-please\u00a0audience, (that&#8217;ll be you)\u00a0with the eventual winner crowned almighty god of fringe theatre\u00a0on the 12th of October, (banquet and jousting to follow). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riversidestudios.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/page.pl?l=1345468585\">You can book tickets here<\/a> and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offwestend.com\/index.php\/news\/view\/143\">read an interview with Off Cut&#8217;s organising genius Daniel Brennan <\/a>on the OffWestEnd website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/v2_Off-Cut-Logo-20122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-160\" title=\"v2_Off-Cut-Logo-2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/v2_Off-Cut-Logo-20122-300x122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/v2_Off-Cut-Logo-20122-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/v2_Off-Cut-Logo-20122.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoffcutfestival.com\/the-plays\/armed-forces-day\/\">&#8216;Armed Forces Day&#8217;\u00a0<\/a>is\u00a0in Group 3, opening next Tuesday the 2nd of October at 7.30pm (with further performances on the 4th and 6th, plus a matinee on Sunday the 7th at 3pm). Its being directed by Ng Choon Ping and the cast are James Unsworth, Darrie Gardner, John Hoye and Zara Radford. I&#8217;ve been to rehearsals and it&#8217;s\u00a0shaping up to be\u00a0really good, fingers crossed it should be something special.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also looking forward to seeing this week&#8217;s groups, as the cast of my REDfest\u00a0finalist &#8216;Nothing But Mammals&#8217; are both acting in plays. Matt Houlihan is appearing in Personnel by Hugo Plowden in Group 1\u00a0and Antonia Reid is in Buzzkill by Annabel Wigoder in Group 2. Fine actors both, I can&#8217;t wait to see them on stage again.<\/p>\n<p>So get booking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Off Cut Festival of\u00a0short plays\u00a0opens this week at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. Showcasing some of the best new writing in theatre, 4 groups of plays (28 in total) will do battle\u00a0in a gladiatorial contest to win the votes of a capricious, hard-to-please\u00a0audience, (that&#8217;ll be you)\u00a0with the eventual winner crowned almighty god of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?p=156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Off Cut Festival 2012 opens at Riverside Studios&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-off-cut-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}