{"id":560,"date":"2016-05-23T23:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T23:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2016-08-10T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T21:53:21","slug":"happy-to-help-at-park-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Happy To Help at Park Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?attachment_id=565\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-565\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-565\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Landscape-for-Web-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Landscape for Web\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Landscape-for-Web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Landscape-for-Web-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Landscape-for-Web-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Landscape-for-Web-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My new play Happy To Help runs from the 14th June to the 9th July 2016\u00a0at Park Theatre, London.\u00a0<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A destitute farmer sells his land to the supermarket chain that drove him out of business. Fifteen years later and a bustling supermarket stands on the same spot. UK managing director Tony is coming to work undercover at the store for a week. Branch manager Vicky is determined to give him a more grimly authentic experience than he\u2019d ever dared wish for. Shelf-stacker Josh dreams of escape and rock stardom. Union organiser Elliot dreams of Josh. By Friday, nothing will ever be the same for them again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iframe%20src=https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/171362868%20width=640%20height=360%20frameborder=0%20webkitallowfullscreen%20mozallowfullscreen%20allowfullscreen\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/171362868\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Roxy Cook. The cast are\u00a0Charles Armstrong, David Bauckham, Katherine Kotz, Ben Mann, Rachel Marwood and Jonny Weldon.<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Celia Dugua, Associate Producer: Claire Evans, Casting Director: Gabriella Shimeld-Fenn, Designer: Emma Tompkins, Sound Designer: Alexandra Faye Braithwaite, Lighting Designer: Sherry Coenen.<\/p>\n<p>Developed with Park\u2019s Script Accelerator Programme and shortlisted for the 2015 Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize. This show is supported by the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parktheatre.co.uk\/whats-on\/happy-to-help\/about\">here<\/a>. Tickets \u00a318 (\u00a316.50 concessions) Previews (14\/15 June) \u00a314.50. Tues-Sat 7.45pm. Thurs &amp; Sat Matinees 3.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>The playtext is being published by Methuen Drama to coincide with the run and\u00a0is\u00a0available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/happy-to-help-9781350009653\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photograph by Crusoe Weston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new play Happy To Help runs from the 14th June to the 9th July 2016\u00a0at Park Theatre, London.\u00a0. A destitute farmer sells his land to the supermarket chain that drove him out of business. Fifteen years later and a bustling supermarket stands on the same spot. UK managing director Tony is coming to work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?p=560\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy To Help at Park Theatre&#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":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}