{"id":2745,"date":"2016-11-01T13:41:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T11:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2016-11-01T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T11:41:32","slug":"the-father-most-acclaimed-new-play-of-the-decade-opens-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/the-father-most-acclaimed-new-play-of-the-decade-opens-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Father: Most Acclaimed New Play Of The Decade Opens Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2746\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TheFather-Fugard.jpg?resize=300%2C421\" alt=\"The Father - Fugard\" width=\"300\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TheFather-Fugard.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TheFather-Fugard.jpg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Starring Marius Weyers, The Father peers inside the mind of Andre, a retired dancer living with his adult daughter Anne and her husband. Or is he a retired engineer receiving a visit from Anne who has moved away with her boyfriend? Why do strangers keep turning up in his room? And where has he left his watch? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefugard.com\/whats-on\/currently-on\/item\/the-father\" target=\"_blank\">The Father<\/a> is a funny, sad and poignant roller coaster ride on a fight against dementia that twists and turns with all the excitement of a taut thriller. The powerhouse cast includes Anthea Thompson, Emily Child, Brent Palmer, Nicholas Pauling and Amy Louise Wilson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.computicket.com\/\/web\/event\/the_father\/1063176966\/0\/74564163\" target=\"_blank\">Book now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starring Marius Weyers, The Father peers inside the mind of Andre, a retired dancer living with his adult daughter Anne and her husband. Or is he a retired engineer receiving a visit from Anne who has moved away with her boyfriend? Why do strangers keep turning up in his room? And where has he left&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/the-father-most-acclaimed-new-play-of-the-decade-opens-next-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Father: Most Acclaimed New Play Of The Decade Opens Next Week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","tag-fugard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}