{"id":34,"date":"2013-03-10T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2013-07-03T13:54:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T13:54:28","slug":"pretend-you-have-big-buildings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"PRETEND YOU HAVE BIG BUILDINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flexslider-wrapper\"><div class=\"flexslider\"><ul class=\"slides\"><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/5387716082_68201cde24_b-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"flex-caption\">From PRETEND YOU HAVE BIG BUILDINGS, Photo: Jonathan Keenan<\/div><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BigBuildings_lge.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BigBuildings_lge.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BigBuildings_lge-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/5387716484_3a8375f147_b1-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"flex-caption\">from PRETEND YOU HAVE BIG BUILDINGS, photo: Jonathan Keenan<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Performed in the Main House at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, July 2007<\/p>\n<p>Winner of the Bruntwood Prize 2006.<br \/>\n&#8216;an exceptional play&#8230; original, sophisticated, intelligent&#8230; and highly entertaining&#8217; Brenda Blethyn, Bruntwood Playwriting Competition panel of judges.<br \/>\n&#8216;Touching, funny and immensely assured.. Musgrave&#8217;s fresh take on forbidden desire in unforgiving surroundings races with a vitality all of its own\u2026\u2019 The Daily Telegraph.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Musgrave has a bright future&#8230; this play has a scope and a sense of recent history that too many new plays lack&#8217; Times<br \/>\n\u2018funny and tender\u2019 The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>1995. Big buildings are rising in London&#8217;s Docklands. But marooned miles to the east, half-in and half-out of the city, Romford has not been invited to the party. Confused about its identity, the inhabitants of the &#8216;only town in London with its own ring road&#8217; are trying to cope. The relationships they forge have painful implications, in this poetic and passionate play that explores growing up, identity and loss.<br \/>\nThe play was directed by Sarah Frankcom and Jo Coombes. You can find out how to buy the playtext published by Nick Hern Books <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickhernbooks.co.uk\/Book\/1025\/Pretend-You-Have-Big-Buildings.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs by Jonathan Keenan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performed in the Main House at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, July 2007 Winner of the Bruntwood Prize 2006. &#8216;an exceptional play&#8230; original, sophisticated, intelligent&#8230; and highly entertaining&#8217; Brenda Blethyn, Bruntwood Playwriting Competition panel of judges. &#8216;Touching, funny and immensely assured.. Musgrave&#8217;s fresh take on forbidden desire in unforgiving surroundings races with a vitality all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","content-columns-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/271"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ben-musgrave.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}