{"id":762,"date":"2025-01-16T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/?p=762"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:07:23","slug":"first-2025-dates-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/2025\/01\/16\/first-2025-dates-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"First 2025 dates announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Had lots of stuff going on in the background, but I can finally make the first announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Coppelius-Buxton-2025-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Doctor Coppelius, written and performed by Chris Neville-Smith, after &quot;Coppelia&quot; by Leo Delibes\/ 9\/10\/15\/16 July, Scrivener's Bookshop\" class=\"wp-image-763\" style=\"width:500px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Coppelius-Buxton-2025-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Coppelius-Buxton-2025-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Coppelius-Buxton-2025-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Coppelius-Buxton-2025-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Coppelius-Buxton-2025.jpeg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It was always my plan to do Doctor Coppelius in 2024 as a WIP to bring it back this year. At the time, my plan was to do the WIP in the tiny space of Scrivener&#8217;s Bookshop and transfer to the Green Man Gallery. Unfortunately, The Green Man Gallery is no more, forcing me to rethink my plans &#8211; and after taking on board feedback from everyone who said how much they loved the bookshop setting, I&#8217;ve decided to stick with Scrivener&#8217;s. Obviously there&#8217;s the capacity of twelve to consider, but I think four performances should do it. If they sell out, I&#8217;ll look into adding more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you who saw it last year, the script has been substantially reworked, especially the last third. Thank you to everyone who turned up, because I learned a lot from that early run-through. There is now, I hope, a much stronger transition from idealistic youth to sinister recluse. If you can&#8217;t get to Buxton, don&#8217;t worry &#8211; I have plans in motion for other performances too. I will try to announce them as they come in, but in the meantime, you can keep track of all of them <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/projects\/doctor-coppelius\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"440\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve just had something else confirmed today, but that announcement will be coming later. No prizes for guessing that one though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had lots of stuff going on in the background, but I can finally make the first announcement. It was always my plan to do Doctor Coppelius in 2024 as a WIP to bring it back this year. At the time, my plan was to do the WIP in the tiny space of Scrivener&#8217;s Bookshop and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}