{"id":1808,"date":"2011-10-24T10:16:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T10:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:57:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:57:25","slug":"musical-tempts-regional-audiences-vox-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/musical-tempts-regional-audiences-vox-pop","title":{"rendered":"Musical tempts regional audiences: Vox Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Theatre Wales stages dark comedy as its first musical\u00a0<\/h2>\n
\"\"<\/a>

A scene from National Theatre Wales' darkly comic new musical "The Village Social"<\/p><\/div>\n

The National Theatre Wales is adding to its artistic repertoire by lifting the curtain on its first musical production. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Village Social, <\/em>an original production created by Daffyd James and Ben Lewis, opened on Friday 21 October and is set to run until mid November with 16 dates around Wales.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to artistic director John McGrath, musicals are an important part of theatre. \u201cAny theatre company should already be trying to attract the widest possible audience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Musical theatre has a particular resonance in Wales because of the country\u2019s glorious musical tradition, he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The darkly comic musical opened at Rudry Parish Hall and is showing at smaller venues around Wales to encourage people away from the cities to enjoy theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Theatre Wales stages dark comedy as its first musical\u00a0 The National Theatre Wales is adding to its artistic repertoire by lifting the curtain on its first musical production. \u00a0 \u00a0The Village Social, an original production created by Daffyd James and Ben Lewis, opened on Friday 21 October and is set to run until mid… <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

Read More<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[148,284,283,251],"yoast_head":"\nMusical tempts regional audiences: Vox Pop - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/musical-tempts-regional-audiences-vox-pop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Musical tempts regional audiences: Vox Pop - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"National Theatre Wales stages dark comedy as its first musical\u00a0 The National Theatre Wales is adding to its artistic repertoire by lifting the curtain on its first musical production. \u00a0 \u00a0The Village Social, an original production created by Daffyd James and Ben Lewis, opened on Friday 21 October and is set to run until mid... Read More\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/musical-tempts-regional-audiences-vox-pop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-10-24T10:16:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-10-07T10:57:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/\",\"name\":\"alt.cardiff\",\"description\":\"If it\\u2019s offbeat and in Cardiff then it\\u2019s online here.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/musical-tempts-regional-audiences-vox-pop#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Culture_3_VIllageSocial_Big_LD.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/musical-tempts-regional-audiences-vox-pop#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/musical-tempts-regional-audiences-vox-pop\",\"name\":\"Musical tempts regional audiences: Vox Pop - alt.cardiff\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/musical-tempts-regional-audiences-vox-pop#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-10-24T10:16:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-10-07T10:57:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/34d0ea86f9ec8130e4085bb0592503c0\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/musical-tempts-regional-audiences-vox-pop\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/34d0ea86f9ec8130e4085bb0592503c0\",\"name\":\"altcardiff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/251d18ae391aa476d090c1eb0e8b3365?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"altcardiff\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}