{"id":2627,"date":"2009-12-18T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T09:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/my-starring-role-in-twitpanto\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T09:48:01","slug":"my-starring-role-in-twitpanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/12\/my-starring-role-in-twitpanto\/","title":{"rendered":"My Starring Role in Twitpanto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later on today I\u2019ll be starring in my very first Pantomime, and you are <em>all<\/em> invited! It\u2019s going to be on Twitter, and following on from the success of last year, the 2009 edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpanto.birminghamhippodrome.com\/\">Twitpanto<\/a> is going to be great fun (oh no it isn\u2019t! etc).<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s production is \u201cRobin Hood \u2013 Men in Twights\u201d and in a strange mix of bravado and do they know what they\u2019re doing, I shall be playing the role of \u201cGuy of <strike>Gisbourne<\/strike> Glasgow\u201d to the Sherriff of Nottingham (who will be played by Labour MP Tom Watson).<\/p>\n<p>I was all set to have this rather wet version&#160; of the character (think Maid Marian) and then the script arrived with this directors note\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Guy of Glasgow<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ewan\">@ewan<\/a>)      <br \/>Drunken (aren\u2019t they all) Scottish mercenary, violent,&#160; think Malcolm Tucker with a horse and a bloody big sword.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Riiiight\u2026 this is getting <em>far<\/em> more interesting. Can I suggest that when I say the word badger, those of you reading after the watershed replace this with a more Tucker-esque word.<\/p>\n<p>Curtain goes up at 3.30pm, but the chatter is sure to start beforehand. All you need to do is follow the Twitter Tag #twitpanto (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitpanto.birminghamhippodrome.com\/\">or watch at the main Twitpanto website<\/a>) and feel free to join in the fun \u2013 just like any good audience!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"#Twitpanto\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"400\" alt=\"#Twitpanto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image99.png\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later on today I\u2019ll be starring in my very first Pantomime, and you are all invited! It\u2019s going to be on Twitter, and following on from the success of last year, the 2009 edition of the Twitpanto is going to be great fun (oh no it isn\u2019t! etc). This year\u2019s production is \u201cRobin Hood \u2013 Men in Twights\u201d and in a strange mix of bravado and do they know what they\u2019re doing, I shall be playing the role of \u201cGuy of Gisbourne Glasgow\u201d to the Sherriff of Nottingham (who will be played by Labour MP Tom Watson). I was all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-Gn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}