{"id":31,"date":"2008-07-16T03:59:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T01:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/entertainment\/chess-showing\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T04:05:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T02:05:11","slug":"chess-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/entertainment\/chess-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chess&#8221; now on Stage at The Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">From the team that brought you the hit shows &#8220;Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat&#8221;, &#8220;Jesus Christ Superstar&#8221; and &#8220;Hair&#8221; comes a gripping romance, full of intrigue, rivalry and jealousy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chess_prd_pic_1.jpg\" alt=\"chess_prd_pic_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chess is used as a metaphor for romantic rivalries and the US-Soviet conflict during the Cold War. The main characters form a love triangle: the temperamental and arrogant American Grandmaster, Freddie Trumper; Anatoly Serievsky, the determined but gentle Russian champion who plans on defecting got the West, and Florence Vassy, the Hungarian-American chess second, to arrives at the international championships with Freddie, but falls in love with Anatoly.<\/p>\n<p>From Bangkok to Budapest, the players, lovers, politicians and spies all struggle to gain the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any specific individuals and Sir Tim Rice&#8217;s original concept was to write a musical about now the Cold War affected the lives of all it touched, the two central characters&#8217; personalities are loosely based on those of Victor Korchnoi and Bobby Fisher.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Visit the Website to book: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreonthebay.co.za\/index.php\" title=\"Theatre on The Bay\">Theatre On The Bay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the team that brought you the hit shows &#8220;Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat&#8221;, &#8220;Jesus Christ Superstar&#8221; and &#8220;Hair&#8221; comes a gripping romance, full of intrigue, rivalry and jealousy. Chess is used as a metaphor for romantic rivalries and the US-Soviet conflict during the Cold War. The main characters form a love triangle: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}