{"id":2838,"date":"2011-09-30T14:49:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T14:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2015-03-31T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T09:11:44","slug":"jonathan-pryce-to-play-king-lear-at-the-almeida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=2838","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Pryce to play &#8216;King Lear&#8217; at the Almeida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2840\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/JP_Main_KL_Image_for_Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2840\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2840\" title=\"JP_Main_KL_Image_for_Web\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/JP_Main_KL_Image_for_Web-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/JP_Main_KL_Image_for_Web-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/JP_Main_KL_Image_for_Web.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Pryce<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>Great news from London\u2019s Almeida Theatre: Jonathan Pryce will perform \u201cKing Lear\u201d there in a production directed by Michael Attenborough that will run Aug. 31 to Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Also next year, the Almeida will have Federico Garcia Lorca\u2019s \u201cThe House of Bernarda Alba\u201d relocated to rural Iran in a production directed by Bijan Sheibani (Jan. 19-March 10). Shohreh Aghdashlo (\u201cThe House of Sand and Fog\u201d) will make her British stage debut.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Attenborough, who is the Almeida\u2019s artistic director, also will direct a new English version of Eduardo de Filippo\u2019s \u201cFilumena\u201d by Tanya Ronder with Olivier Award winning Samantha Spiro (\u201cMerrily We Roll Along\u201d at the Donmar, 2000). Yonder\u2019s adaptation of \u201cVernon God Little\u201d ran at the Young Vic.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more about productions at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almeida.co.uk\/\">Almeida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett Great news from London\u2019s Almeida Theatre: Jonathan Pryce will perform \u201cKing Lear\u201d there in a production directed by Michael Attenborough that will run Aug. 31 to Nov. 3. Also next year, the Almeida will have Federico Garcia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=2838\">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":[9,16],"tags":[1644,319,727,1645],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-theatre","tag-king-lear","tag-almeida-theatre","tag-jonathan-pryce","tag-michael-attenborough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","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=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6702,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/6702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}