{"id":108381,"date":"2019-09-01T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T13:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/01\/north-and-south-review-strikes-and-strife-in-a-factory-town\/"},"modified":"2019-09-01T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T13:33:21","slug":"north-and-south-review-strikes-and-strife-in-a-factory-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=108381","title":{"rendered":"North and South review \u2013\u00a0strikes and strife in a factory town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pitlochry Festival theatre, Port Na CraigRarely has theatre seemed so much part of the public sphere as in this electrifying adaptation of the Elizabeth Gaskell novelThere is a thrilling transition three scenes into this adaptation of the Elizabeth Gaskell novel. So far, it\u2019s been the very picture of a bucolic idyll. We\u2019ve been in Margaret Hale\u2019s beloved childhood home of Helstone, where the pillars that formed the columns of a stately house in the first scene have the suggestion of trees, which are tall, shady and enveloping. Half a dozen community cast members come on to scatter petals that flutter in the breeze. It is languid, laid-back and carefree, like the sweeter moments of A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.That\u2019s when it happens. In an instant, the colour scheme switches from spring green to industrial grey, and the trees on Amanda Stoodley\u2019s set become toxic chimneys billowing smoke over the town of Milton, a stand-in for the Manchester of the industrial revolution. The petals filling the air are now fatal strands of cotton, ready to clog every mill worker\u2019s lungs. The community cast has swollen to fill all corners of the stage, the embodiment of urban overpopulation. You\u2019d think you were in a different play. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/sep\/01\/north-and-south-review-strikes-and-strife-in-a-factory-town\" target=\"_blank\">North and South review \u2013\u00a0strikes and strife in a factory town<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitlochry Festival theatre, Port Na CraigRarely has theatre seemed so much part of the public sphere as in this electrifying adaptation of the Elizabeth Gaskell novelThere is a thrilling transition three scenes into this adaptation of the Elizabeth Gaskell novel. So far, it\u2019s been the very picture of a bucolic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}