{"id":961,"date":"2023-11-25T19:02:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T19:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/?p=961"},"modified":"2023-11-25T19:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T19:02:24","slug":"rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/25\/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This programme is from 1970. The play was Tom Stoppard&#8217;s first big hit. As a student in Birmingham I used to visit the Rep quite often. This was the old building in Station Street, not the current building next to the library. I remember the seats in the circle had an incredibly steep rake. Sitting there, you felt like a goat clinging to the side of a mountain. The programme cost 1\/- ( 5p ). Most modern programmes are about one hundred times more expensive, although admittedly the quality is better today. It is interesting to see that the actors&#8217; biographies refer to them as &#8216;Mr Gostelow&#8217; and &#8216;Mr Drinkel&#8217;. This seems like the formality of an earlier age.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/R-and-G-Are-Dead-Bham-Rep-1970.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width: 500px; \" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"on\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">R and G Are Dead Bham Rep 1970<br\/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This programme is from 1970. The play was Tom Stoppard&#8217;s first big hit. As a student in Birmingham I used to visit the Rep quite often. This was the old building in Station Street, not the current building next to the library. I remember the seats in the circle had \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/25\/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WLDF-fv","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}