{"id":15464,"date":"2023-07-19T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/england-and-son\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:49:52","slug":"england-and-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/england-and-son\/","title":{"rendered":"England and Son"},"content":{"rendered":"

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England and Son\u00a0<\/em>is a\u00a0one-man play written specifically for the political comedian Mark Thomas by award-winning playwright Ed Edwards (The Political History of Smack and Crack<\/em>).<\/a> It’s a\u00a0heartbreaking but funny horror story in which all the horrors are real.<\/p>\n

Prepare for Mark to take you on a epic odyssey where disaster capitalism, Thatcherite politics and the end of Empire merge in the simple tale of a working-class boy who just wants his dad to smile at him and ruffle his hair.<\/p>\n

This is the first play Mark has ever performed in that he has not written himself, and the play was in the top nine shows in the Sunday Times \u201cmust-see\u201d list for this year\u2019s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.<\/p>\n

England and Son<\/em> is on at Paine\u2019s Plough Roundabout, Edinburgh 4th<\/sup> \u2013 28th<\/sup> August.<\/p>\n

There will be a sixty date tour after Endinburgh. To find a date near you visit Mark\u2019s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

England and Son\u00a0is a\u00a0one-man play written specifically for the political comedian Mark Thomas by award-winning playwright Ed Edwards (The Political History of Smack and Crack). It’s a\u00a0heartbreaking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":15463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1662],"tags":[2802],"class_list":["post-15464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theatre-2","tag-edinburgh-fringe-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}