{"id":45,"date":"2015-04-26T21:52:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T21:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.d-s.org.uk\/newsite\/?p=45"},"modified":"2015-04-26T21:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T21:52:28","slug":"one-for-the-road-evt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsmithactor.co.uk\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"One For The Road at Esk Valley Theatre, 7th-30th August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 2%; margin-bottom: 2%;\">\n<div style=\"border:0; margin-top: 1%; width: 100%\">\n<p>David played Dennis Cain in Willy Russell&#8217;s &quot;One for the Road&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Set in 1980&#8217;s sprawling suburbia, the action centres around a dinner party at Dennis and Pauline Cain&#8217;s semi-detached dormer bungalow on the eve of Dennis&#8217;s 40th birthday. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s in the throes of a mid-life crisis &#8211; disillusioned with the conventional life he&#8217;s been saddled with and desperate to breakout. Pauline is more concerned with cooking to impress. The presence of upwardly-mobile Roger and Jane at the party and Dennis&#8217;s Olympic alcohol consumption combine to send the evening spiralling out of control and heading towards a revelation from Dennis that shatters the status quo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"quotation\">&#8220;Esk Valley Theatre has chosen a good play and great actors &#8211; excellent theatre. Restless Dennis crouches on the sofa, leaps over it and lies on the floor completely unrelaxed &#8211; making actor David Smith mesmerising to watch.&#8221;  &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/entertainment\/theatre\/review\/11415682.One_For_the_Road__Esk_Valley_Theatre__The_Robinson_Institute__Glaisdale__near_Whitby_\/?ref=arc\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Link to Northern Echo review\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span>Emily Thwaite &#8211; Northern Echo<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David played Dennis Cain in Willy Russell&#8217;s &quot;One for the Road&quot;. Set in 1980&#8217;s sprawling suburbia, the action centres around a dinner party at Dennis and Pauline Cain&#8217;s semi-detached dormer bungalow on the eve of Dennis&#8217;s 40th birthday. He&#8217;s in the throes of a mid-life crisis &#8211; disillusioned with the conventional life he&#8217;s been saddled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,38,47,53,66,78,81,85,94,114,123,127,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsmithactor.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsmithactor.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsmithactor.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsmithactor.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsmithactor.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidsmithactor.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsmithactor.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsmithactor.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsmithactor.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}