{"id":13781,"date":"2022-06-09T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/cancelling-socrates-review-howard-brenton-interrogates-democracy-in-a-rich-play-of-ideas"},"modified":"2022-06-09T11:45:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:45:08","slug":"cancelling-socrates-review-howard-brenton-interrogates-democracy-in-a-rich-play-of-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/cancelling-socrates-review-howard-brenton-interrogates-democracy-in-a-rich-play-of-ideas","title":{"rendered":"Cancelling Socrates review &#8211; Howard Brenton interrogates democracy in a rich play of ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Hyde as Socrates in Cancelling Socrates at the Jermyn Street theatre, London.Howard Brenton&#8217;s play about the last days of Athenian philosopher and gadfly Socrates comes at a moment when playwrights seem increasingly to be seeking out the parallels between the ancient Greek world and our own upset modern society.Featuring a convincingly otherworldly Socrates in Jonathan Hyde, this is a rich play of ideas, elegantly directed by Tom Littler, and following in the tradition of Plato&#8217;s dialogues to give us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Brenton&#8217;s play about the last days of Athenian philosopher and gadfly Socrates comes at a moment when playwrights seem increasingly to be seeking out the parallels between the ancient<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[90,305,19],"class_list":["post-13781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news","tag-books-literature","tag-brexit","tag-entertainment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}