{"id":1560,"date":"2015-07-23T14:27:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=1560"},"modified":"2017-07-30T10:41:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T10:41:30","slug":"generations-apart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=1560","title":{"rendered":"Generations Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by\u00a0Peter Gordon, and directed by Anne Ottaway.<\/p>\n<p>Set on a cliff top in the Isle of Wight, both in 1969 and 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Having met Anne in 1969 during the week of the Summer of Love music festival, Paul decides to shed his conservative life on the island, rejecting his parents and fianc\u00e9e to run off with Anne to her commune on the mainland. A heart attack by his father Albert forces him to reconsider, and despite promises of joining Anne later, it\u2019s apparent he will stay.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, a chance encounter with Anne who is visiting the island with her own daughter, leads Paul back into his past and the flames of romance slowly rekindle \u2013\u00a0but not without seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their path, not least of which is the growing attachment between Paul\u2019s son Al and Anne\u2019s daughter Julie.<\/p>\n<p>The parallels between Paul\u2019s past relationship with his father and his current relationship with his own son become apparent, as each generation grapples with similar problems and difficulties to the one before in this poignant and humorous look at how the events of one week in 1969 affect three generations of the same family.<\/p>\n<p>This was an 8 player one with Tom Horsington, Harriet Still, Felicity Morgan, Steve Twinn, Ian Farley, Monica Hunt, Ellie Martin and Jonny White.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/fWZsH\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/fWZsH\">Generations Apart<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by\u00a0Peter Gordon, and directed by Anne Ottaway. Set on a cliff top in the Isle of Wight, both in 1969 and 1996. Having met Anne in 1969 during the week of the Summer of Love music festival, Paul decides to shed his conservative life on the island, rejecting his parents and fianc\u00e9e to run &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=1560\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Generations Apart<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1557,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1560","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5MaE2-pa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1560\/revisions\/1927"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}