{"id":383,"date":"2013-12-22T21:44:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T21:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2015-05-23T22:40:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T22:40:44","slug":"work-makes-you-free-the-park-theatre-jan-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Work Makes You Free, the Park Theatre, Jan 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/work-makes-you-free-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-384 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/work-makes-you-free-image-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"work makes you free image\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/work-makes-you-free-image-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/work-makes-you-free-image-375x300.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/work-makes-you-free-image.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming\u00a0up next\u00a0is my\u00a0short play &#8216;Work Makes You Free&#8217;, part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradigmtheatrecompany.co.uk\/\">Paradigm Theatre&#8217;s <\/a>new writing festival &#8216;A Bad Case of the Mondays&#8217; on\u00a0Monday\u00a0evenings in January\u00a0at the <a href=\"http:\/\/parktheatre.co.uk\/\">Park Theatre<\/a>. It is being directed by Cat Robey and the cast are Antonia Reid and Gemma Rook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Work Makes You Free&#8217; is a play about workfare, hatred of the unemployed, the modern menace of anonymous online abuse,\u00a0and how work has become the new religion.\u00a0It tells the story of two very different women; Willow, an unemployed actor who takes legal action against the government after she\u00a0is\u00a0made to\u00a0work\u00a0unpaid\u00a0at Poundland, and Jane, who works for a credit rating agency and who, like George Osborne, is incensed at the sight of closed blinds in her neighbours windows<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/georgeosborne\/9594251\/Sketch-George-Osbornes-nose-for-politics.html\">\u00a0<\/a>as she leaves for work every morning.<\/p>\n<p>Performances are on Monday the 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th of January in the Morris Space at the Park Theatre. Tickets available <a href=\"https:\/\/boxoffice.parktheatre.co.uk\/ParkTheatre.dll\/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsProgramme_1311584\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming\u00a0up next\u00a0is my\u00a0short play &#8216;Work Makes You Free&#8217;, part of Paradigm Theatre&#8217;s new writing festival &#8216;A Bad Case of the Mondays&#8217; on\u00a0Monday\u00a0evenings in January\u00a0at the Park Theatre. It is being directed by Cat Robey and the cast are Antonia Reid and Gemma Rook. &#8216;Work Makes You Free&#8217; is a play about workfare, hatred of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?p=383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Work Makes You Free, the Park Theatre, Jan 2014.&#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],"tags":[15,14,16,12,13,17],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-antonia-reid","tag-cat-robey","tag-gemma-rook","tag-paradigm-theatre","tag-park-theatre","tag-workfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}