{"id":135040,"date":"2020-03-06T14:54:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/06\/jon-culshaw-to-play-bill-bryson-in-notes-from-a-small-island-adaptation\/"},"modified":"2020-03-06T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:54:20","slug":"jon-culshaw-to-play-bill-bryson-in-notes-from-a-small-island-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=135040","title":{"rendered":"Jon Culshaw to play Bill Bryson in Notes from a Small Island adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Ringers impressionist takes lead role in stage version of bestselling book on British identityThe impressionist Jon Culshaw is to play Bill Bryson in a new stage adaptation of Notes from a Small Island, the Iowa-born author\u2019s bestselling book about British eccentricities.Culshaw, whose impersonations have long been heard on the radio show Dead Ringers, said that Bryson\u2019s \u201cdelicious wit\u201d made it a joy to prepare for the role. Bryson said he was \u201cintrigued and excited to see how Notes from a Small Island will be translated into a theatrical experience. I am especially delighted that Jon Culshaw will be taking the lead role. I have no doubt that he will be a better me than I am.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2020\/mar\/06\/jon-culshaw-bill-bryson-notes-from-a-small-island\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Culshaw to play Bill Bryson in Notes from a Small Island adaptation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Ringers impressionist takes lead role in stage version of bestselling book on British identityThe impressionist Jon Culshaw is to play Bill Bryson in a new stage adaptation of Notes from a Small Island, the Iowa-born author\u2019s bestselling book about British eccentricities.Culshaw, whose impersonations have long been heard on the [&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-135040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135040","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=135040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}