{"id":1736,"date":"2018-08-27T19:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2025-04-01T00:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:01:35","slug":"someone-waiting-january-24-february-2-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/someone-waiting-january-24-february-2-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Waiting (January 24 \u2013 February 2, 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The third play of the season is Emlyn Williams\u2019 Someone Waiting, first seen in London and on Broadway in 1955. Martin\u2019s best friend Paul has been wrongfully hanged for murdering a woman in his adoptive father\u2019s flat. When Martin fails his law exam, Fenn, a private tutor, arrives and soon confides to Martin that he is Paul\u2019s father who has come to administer justice himself to whoever it was who really did the killing. Before this evening is over, you will find that you have been misled several times. Playwright, novelist and actor Emlyn Williams understood theatre intimately and knew what worked for audiences. When he died in 1987, he had written or co-written 20 screenplays in addition to his 20 plays.&nbsp; Someone Waiting will keep you on the edge of your seat as the plot twists and twists again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;\u201c\u2026 a drama of murder and revenge which stretches suspense from the first moment of the first act to the final line\u2026 If you can guess beforehand what will happen at play\u2019s end you are smarter than I am\u2026 As an addict of the psychological thriller, I had a fine time.\u201d &nbsp;~ New York News<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third play of the season is Emlyn Williams\u2019 Someone Waiting, first seen in London and on Broadway in 1955. Martin\u2019s best friend Paul has been wrongfully hanged for murdering a woman in his adoptive father\u2019s flat. When Martin fails his law exam, Fenn, a private tutor, arrives and soon confides to Martin that he is Paul\u2019s father who has \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/someone-waiting-january-24-february-2-2019\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,61],"tags":[144,146],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2018-19","category-all","tag-by-emlyn-williams","tag-psychological-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}