{"id":1384,"date":"2018-03-16T23:32:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T23:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2018-03-16T23:32:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T23:32:38","slug":"told-by-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Told by an Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1364\" style=\"width: 3543px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/jeanLet_me_play_the_lion_too_Barbican_Centre_Ph._Laura_Granelli011.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie and Jean are in costume. Jean is faking a heart attack and Sophie is helping her.\" width=\"3543\" height=\"2362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/jeanLet_me_play_the_lion_too_Barbican_Centre_Ph._Laura_Granelli011.jpg 3543w, https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/jeanLet_me_play_the_lion_too_Barbican_Centre_Ph._Laura_Granelli011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/jeanLet_me_play_the_lion_too_Barbican_Centre_Ph._Laura_Granelli011-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/jeanLet_me_play_the_lion_too_Barbican_Centre_Ph._Laura_Granelli011-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3543px) 100vw, 3543px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean St Clair, Sophie Woolley, Photo by Laura Granelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I learned loads whilst working with Told by an Idiot&#8217;s Paul Hunter and Stephen Harper. And from the other eleven actors in the ensemble too. There were extra sessions with Lisa Hammond, Wardrobe Ensemble, Little Soldier and Rachel Bagshaw. I discovered I like playing with half masks. A lot.<\/p>\n<p>We did three improvised\u00a0<em>Let Me Play the Lion Too<\/em> performances at The Barbican, along with a panel discussion, due to be broadcast by Sky Arts next March, in a short film presented by Sally Philips.<\/p>\n<p>Every day was fun, exciting, risky and inspiring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/lion2-02-23_Let_me_play_the_lion_too_Barbican_Centre_Ph._Laura_Granelli002.jpg\" alt=\"lion2-02-23_Let_me_play_the_lion_too_Barbican_Centre_Ph._Laura_Granelli002.jpg\" width=\"3543\" height=\"2362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/lion2-02-23_Let_me_play_the_lion_too_Barbican_Centre_Ph._Laura_Granelli002.jpg 3543w, https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/lion2-02-23_Let_me_play_the_lion_too_Barbican_Centre_Ph._Laura_Granelli002-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/lion2-02-23_Let_me_play_the_lion_too_Barbican_Centre_Ph._Laura_Granelli002-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/lion2-02-23_Let_me_play_the_lion_too_Barbican_Centre_Ph._Laura_Granelli002-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3543px) 100vw, 3543px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More photos and information about the project<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toldbyanidiot.org\/productions\/let-me-play-lion-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned loads whilst working with Told by an Idiot&#8217;s Paul Hunter and Stephen Harper. And from the other eleven actors in the ensemble too. There were extra sessions with Lisa Hammond, Wardrobe Ensemble, Little Soldier and Rachel Bagshaw. I discovered I like playing with half masks. A lot. We did three improvised\u00a0Let Me Play &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/?p=1384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Told by an Idiot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSgAb-mk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}