{"id":5641,"date":"2012-01-21T22:44:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T22:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2012-01-21T22:44:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T22:44:38","slug":"looking-back-to-alice-and-forward-to-the-arts-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5641","title":{"rendered":"Looking back to Alice and forward to the Arts Festival Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120122119.jpg\" alt=\"Alice\" \/><br \/>\nAlice in Wonderland, performed produced and written by members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdon-drama-club.com\/\">Abingdon Drama Club<\/a>, has just finished a successful run at the Unicorn Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Soon to come in Abingdon is the Festival Ball at the Guildhall on 18th February (an early fund raiser event for the Abingdon Arts Festival). Tickets \u00a318\/\u00a316 available from The Bookstore or Information Centre. Music by Swingtime Big Band. Price includes finger  buffet by Abbey Foods. There is also a raffle with prizes donated by many local businesses.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120122116.jpg\" alt=\"Alice\" \/><br \/>\nAnyway for those who went to Alice I took a few pictures of the display in Abingdon Library before it got taken down &#8230; Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120122117.jpg\" alt=\"Alice\" \/><br \/>\nNursey and Queeny had more than a passing resemblance to Nursey and Queeny from Black Adder. Excellent.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120122118.jpg\" alt=\"Alice\" \/><br \/>\nThere was also a wonderfully Mad Hatter&#8217;s Tea Party.  The March Hare was brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>People came from far and wide to see this production. I was told by one of them that it was a better show than what you could see at many much larger theatres in these regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice in Wonderland, performed produced and written by members of the Abingdon Drama Club, has just finished a successful run at the Unicorn Theatre. Soon to come in Abingdon is the Festival Ball at the Guildhall on 18th February (an early fund raiser event for the Abingdon Arts Festival). Tickets \u00a318\/\u00a316 available from The Bookstore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}