{"id":778,"date":"2024-02-06T19:55:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/?p=778"},"modified":"2024-02-06T20:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:26:15","slug":"house-drama-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/life\/house-drama-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: House Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOUSE: Duckworth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The story in a sentence:<\/strong> An adaptation of Disney\u2019s Robin Hood: cute, fun but with no Kevin Costner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best moments<\/strong>: Intricate set, clever prop and stage design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star performers<\/strong>: Ensemble, Ethan Marshal, Liv Bellins, Charlotte Banach<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall position<\/strong>: 4<i>th<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOUSE: Riverdale\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The story in a sentence:<\/strong> Riverdale steals 2<i>nd<\/i> place with the Titanic story of Prometheus, who steals fire from the gods to gift to his favourite pets \u2013 humans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best moments<\/strong>: The end of the Titantonomachy (aka &#8211; when they were all dead on the floor); the\u00a0 forging of Athene\u2019s plywood sword<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star performers<\/strong>: Ainsley Mays, Merrick Rixon, Henri Parkin, Audrey and Lincoln Emmons<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall position<\/strong>: 2<i>nd<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOUSE: Ellis\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The story in a sentence<\/strong>: A young boy summons well-spoken Etonian demon who arranges the abduction and murder of his family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best moments:<\/strong> The yanking of Ed, Rosie\u2019s death, saving of the school\u2019s electricity bill with \u2018atmospheric\u2019 lighting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star performers:<\/strong> Ben Jackson, Rosie Jones, Freddie, the makeup<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall position<\/strong>: 1<i>st<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOUSE: Windemere \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The story in a sentence:<\/strong> Grumpy Valkyrie is forced into a Norse iteration of Romeo and Juliet \u2013 featuring poison, suicide, humour and Ryan Larson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best moments<\/strong>: Hugo and Charley\u2019s bromance, picture perfect horses<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star performers<\/strong>: Hugo Andrews, Charley Campbell, Grace Illingworth, Rose Ritson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall position<\/strong>: 3<i>rd<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Show Notes\/ Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cause of global warming uncovered \u2013 the Soothill&#8217;s balcony<\/li>\n<li>The 80s rock band meets renaissance look in the speech by our Drama Captain<\/li>\n<li>Reform of performance style with the abolishment of the previously obligatory \u2018Rugby Player in a Dress\u2019 character, although it was nice to see Duckworth give the rugby players a chance centre stage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A (very) quick round up of the best bits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,17,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}