{"id":275949,"date":"2025-07-19T23:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275949\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T23:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T23:28:17","slug":"the-estate-at-the-national-theatre-review-adeel-akhtar-is-extraordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275949\/","title":{"rendered":"The Estate at the National Theatre review: Adeel Akhtar is extraordinary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though contrived in parts, Shaan Sahota\u2019s debut play about a British Sikh politician wrestling with his family and his desire to lead his party is an absolute blast. It\u2019s anchored by an extraordinary performance from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/culture\/tvfilm\/showtrial-who-plays-who-season-two-cast-b1185513.html\" title=\"Showtrial: who plays who in season two of the hit BBC drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adeel Akhtar<\/a>, in which emotion seems to possess and convulse his wiry body. Wildly funny, sometimes shocking, occasionally absurd, Daniel Raggett\u2019s shouty, kinetic, music-studded production is a hell of a ride. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though contrived in parts, Shaan Sahota\u2019s debut play about a British Sikh politician wrestling with his family and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,19735,104217,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-275949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-national-theatre","13":"tag-theatre-review","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114882497985972073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}