{"id":103774,"date":"2017-08-22T07:47:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=103774"},"modified":"2017-08-22T07:47:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:47:14","slug":"sylvester-mccoy-appearing-in-the-edinburgh-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2017\/08\/22\/103774-sylvester-mccoy-appearing-in-the-edinburgh-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester McCoy appearing in the Edinburgh Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/a-joke.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-103775 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/a-joke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/a-joke.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/a-joke-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/a-joke-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/a-joke-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a> As we mentioned on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/TheOneRingnet\/posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook <\/a>page last week, Sylvester McCoy is currently appearing (along side fellow geek-favourite Robert Picardo, of <em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> fame), in a play in the <a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.edfringe.com\/whats-on\/joke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh Fringe<\/a>. Dan Freeman&#8217;s comedy <em>A Joke<\/em> stars McCoy and Picardo, along with Richard Oliver &#8211; and is a brilliant piece of absurdist comedy and meta-theatricality. Cleverly written, the play is performed in the round (or square, to be more accurate), and plays with and subverts the expectations of humour.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman&#8217;s piece is startlingly good, as are the three players. Packed with delightful, laugh out loud moments, as well as thought-provoking writing, this is definitely one to see. If you&#8217;re in Scotland, you have until Saturday 26th August to catch it. If you&#8217;re not in the area, well, perhaps you can help to bring the play to other venues; or help to support a filmed version of the show. Check out details on Freeman&#8217;s website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danfreeman.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read All Edinburgh Theatre&#8217;s review of the show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alledinburghtheatre.com\/a-joke-edfringe-2017-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>; and full details on how to get tickets are <a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.edfringe.com\/whats-on\/joke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. TORn&#8217;s greendragon saw the show last week and was absolutely charmed by it; do see it if you can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned on our Facebook page last week, Sylvester McCoy is currently appearing (along side fellow geek-favourite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":103776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,1300,4,240,1228,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-stage","category-sylvester-mccoy","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/a-joke2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-qZM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103778,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103774\/revisions\/103778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}