{"id":1074,"date":"2019-04-11T16:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/?page_id=1074"},"modified":"2021-09-27T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:23:31","slug":"martha-josie-and-the-chinese-elvis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/?page_id=1074","title":{"rendered":"Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>When no one else can understand you&#8230;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h5>Josie\u2019s tired. Tired of the Bolton winter. Tired of looking after daydreaming daughter Brenda-Marie. Tired of obsessive cleaner Martha. Tired of working as a dominatrix to make ends meet. Too tired to celebrate turning forty.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5>But her favourite client Lionel insists on a birthday party and, knowing Josie\u2019s a huge Elvis fan, invites a very special guest. Just as hips start swinging, somebody no-one expected arrives and skeletons come tumbling out of the closet\u2026<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5>Writer of <em>Humble Boy<\/em>&nbsp;(National Theatre)&nbsp;Charlotte Jones\u2019 hilarious and heartfelt comedy about finding a place to fit in won the 1998 Pearson Best Play Award and, on its twenty-first anniversary, receives its first ever London production, from comedy specialists Signal.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5>Quirky and kinky, and with a rocking Elvis soundtrack*, this sweet yet saucy celebration of life\u2019s outsiders is the perfect \u2018adults only\u2019 alternative Christmas treat. (*NB: is NOT a musical!) <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parktheatre.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Park Theatre<\/a><br>11 December 2019 \u2013 4 January 2020<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/?page_id=1681\">Reviews<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/?page_id=1725\">Gallery<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/?page_id=1783\">Cast<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/?page_id=1805\">Crew<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/?page_id=1835\">Funders<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When no one else can understand you&#8230; Josie\u2019s tired. Tired of the Bolton winter. Tired of looking after daydreaming daughter Brenda-Marie. Tired of obsessive cleaner Martha. Tired of working as a dominatrix to make ends meet. Too tired to celebrate turning forty. But her favourite client Lionel insists on a birthday party and, knowing Josie\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1075,"parent":66,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1074"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1074\/revisions\/2085"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/signaltheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}