{"id":1076,"date":"2008-04-18T18:01:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T18:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2015-03-22T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T09:01:16","slug":"small-change-adds-up-to-a-lot-of-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"THEATRE REVIEW BRIEF: Peter Gill&#8217;s &#8216;Small Change&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Small-Change-x650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5565\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Small-Change-x650.jpg\" alt=\"'Small Change' x650\" width=\"619\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Small-Change-x650.jpg 619w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Small-Change-x650-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>LONDON &#8212; Peter Gill&#8217;s play &#8220;Small Change,&#8221; a tale of two men&#8217;s boyhood friendship and their missed opportunity for love in a working-class area of Wales in the 1950s, has evocative moments but is rendered in a singular voice and becomes too dense to be engaging.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Grandage directs Luke Evans and Matt Ryan (pictured), Sue Johnston and Lindsey Coulsen in a story of lost passion.<\/p>\n<p>Written in 1976 and revived under the playwright&#8217;s direction at the Donmar Warehouse, the play features four characters with four chairs on a bare stage. Two mothers and two sons address the audience, painting pictures of harsh times when poverty strikes minds as well as bellies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett LONDON &#8212; Peter Gill&#8217;s play &#8220;Small Change,&#8221; a tale of two men&#8217;s boyhood friendship and their missed opportunity for love in a working-class area of Wales in the 1950s, has evocative moments but is rendered in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1076\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[519,520,3042,3043,862,972,1100],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-theatre","tag-donmar","tag-donmar-warehouse","tag-luke-evans","tag-matt-ryan","tag-michael-grandage","tag-peter-gill","tag-small-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5566,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/5566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}