{"id":54998,"date":"2017-09-29T02:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54998"},"modified":"2017-09-29T02:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:52:18","slug":"half-breed-theatre-review-funny-gripping-show-packs-a-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54998","title":{"rendered":"Half Breed, theatre review: Funny, gripping show packs a punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/goingout\/theatre\/half-breed-theatre-review-funny-gripping-show-packs-a-punch-a3610856.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Half Breed<\/strong><em><strong>, theatre review: Funny, gripping show packs a punch<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London Evening Standard<\/a><br \/>\n2017-08-14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veronica Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/goingout\/theatre\/half-breed-theatre-review-funny-gripping-show-packs-a-punch-a3610856.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/hero_tablet\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2017\/08\/14\/09\/natasha-marshall.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Impassioned: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshallTash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natasha Marshall<\/a> performs in Half Breed <em>Rebecca Need-Menear<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshallTash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natasha Marshall<\/a> gives an impassioned performance in a\u00a0semi-autobiographical show, writes Veronica Lee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI am\u00a0that mixed-race kid, 50\/50. I\u2019m about as black as it goes round here,\u201d 17-year-old Jaz says in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshallTash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natasha Marshall\u2019s<\/a> semi-autobiographical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/theatre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> about being the only non-white girl growing up in a small English village.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jaz, who lives with her white grandmother in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Country<\/a>, dreams of going to drama school while her best friend, Brogan, whose main ambition in life is to have a baby, talks of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a> as if it were <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But they\u2019re tight, these two, kindred spirits brought together by both having spent time in the care system, and Brogan, despite not being able to fathom why her friend is doing it, is as determined as Jaz that her Shakespeare audition speech will be perfect&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/goingout\/theatre\/half-breed-theatre-review-funny-gripping-show-packs-a-punch-a3610856.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Marshall gives an impassioned performance in a\u00a0semi-autobiographical show, writes Veronica Lee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1196,8,10],"tags":[81,7248,27548,27549],"class_list":["post-54998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-england","tag-london-evening-standard","tag-natasha-marshall","tag-veronica-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54999,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54998\/revisions\/54999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}