{"id":3123,"date":"2010-11-18T05:19:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T10:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2014-03-31T18:41:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T22:41:17","slug":"episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=3123","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Episodes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tony-winning revival of<em> The Norman Conquests <\/em>remains one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/05\/a-weekend-in-the-country.html\">greatest theatrical experiences<\/a> of my life. Matthew Warchus&#8217; production was so brilliantly realized at the Circle in the Square that I took in two full day marathons of the Ayckbourn classic, including the show&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/07\/he-came-he-saw-and-oh-how-he-conquered.html\">final performance<\/a>. (I was such a fan of the experience, I even stage doored a show for the first time in over four years).<\/p>\n<p>All six performers were exceptional and if there was a Tony Award for Best Ensemble, they would have won hands-down. But one particular performer was my personal favorite: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Mangan\">Stephen Mangan<\/a> as the titular Norman, half sad-sack, half lothario who wreaks havoc on his family over the course of an eventful weekend at his wife&#8217;s family home. It was a display of sheer bravado and one of the most impressive performances I&#8217;ve ever witnessed. (And he should have won that Tony).<\/p>\n<p>Mangan, a staple in British television and theatre, is going to be a familiar sight to American viewers this January when Showtime premieres its new series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sho.com\/site\/episodes\/home.do\"><em>Episodes<\/em><\/a>. The show is about married British writers (Mangan and his<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Wing\">Green Wing <\/a><\/em>co-star <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tamsin_Greig\">Tamsin Greig<\/a>) who find themselves moving to California to adapt their hit series (about a posh boarding school) for American television. The couple is forced by studio pressure to cast washed up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_LeBlanc\">Matt LeBlanc<\/a> (as himself) in the lead role and find themselves dealing with Hollywood eccentrics. I&#8217;m looking forward to tuning in.<\/p>\n<p>The series premieres on Showtime January 9, 2011 at 9:30PM.<\/p>\n<p>%CODE1%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tony-winning revival of The Norman Conquests remains one of the greatest theatrical experiences of my life. Matthew Warchus&#8217; production was so brilliantly realized at the Circle in the Square that I took in two full day marathons of the Ayckbourn classic, including the show&#8217;s final performance. (I was such a fan of the experience, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=3123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Episodes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1106,1110,1107,2301,1109,2208,2089],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-episodes","tag-matt-leblanc","tag-showtime","tag-stephen-mangan","tag-tamsin-greig","tag-the-norman-conquests","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4712,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/4712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}