{"id":6904,"date":"2018-08-27T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael-french.net\/?page_id=6904"},"modified":"2018-08-27T18:01:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:01:14","slug":"the-information-on-sacred-heart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/?page_id=6904","title":{"rendered":"The Information on: Sacred Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>8 April 1999<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What Is It?<\/p>\n<p>Mick Mahoney&#8217;s new play at the Royal Court, directed by Edward Hall, about four old friends who meet up unexpectedly after 18 years in the soon-to-be-demolished Sacred Heart church hall, scene of their youth. Naturally, the words skeletons and closet spring to mind.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s In It?<\/p>\n<p>Michael French (aka former Albert Square romeo David Wicks), who proves there&#8217;s life beyond Walford as wideboy property developer, Jerry. Ewan Stewart, Doon Mackichan and Cecilia Noble provide able support as the friends he left behind in a bid to make his fortune.<\/p>\n<p>What They Say About It<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mahoney has a flair for the kind of short, sharp exchanges you&#8217;d hear at the Queen Vic.&#8221; Dominic Cavendish, Time Out. &#8220;Writer Mick Mahoney, famed in previous plays for his use of cockney rhyming slang, has abandoned one idiom without truly finding another to replace it.&#8221; Fiona Mountford, Daily Telegraph. &#8220;Almost every potential cliche in the play has a twist that redeems it, and Edward Hall&#8217;s production elicits beautifully shaded performances, particularly from Mr French&#8230; Quirky touches ensure that Sacred Heart is no standard trudge down the obstacle course of memory lane&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 April 1999 The Independent What Is It? Mick Mahoney&#8217;s new play at the Royal Court, directed by Edward Hall, about four old friends who meet up unexpectedly after 18 years in the soon-to-be-demolished Sacred Heart church hall, scene of their youth. Naturally, the words skeletons and closet spring to mind. Who&#8217;s In It? Michael &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/?page_id=6904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":257,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6904","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6905,"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6904\/revisions\/6905"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}