{"id":59814,"date":"2025-04-29T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59814\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:14:13","slug":"humble-boy-by-charlotte-jones-heading-to-oldbury-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59814\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones heading to Oldbury Rep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First performed at the Royal National Theatre in 2001 (being awarded Best New Play by the Critics\u2019 Circle in the same year), this poignant comedy cleverly parallels and interlaces seemingly disparate themes, from dysfunctional family relationships to beekeeping and theoretical physics. Mirroring the inner thoughts perspective of Hamlet, the lead character Felix, explores the depths of despair, inner turmoil, loss and longing. His return home leads him on a turbulent journey of discovery and revelation, but will he find his unified field theory, the theory of everything &#8211; both in the cosmos and his own inner universe?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/b954df0b-960e-41fa-9ce3-1f8c230cf1f1.jpg\"   alt=\"Humble Boy poster for play by Charlotte Jones\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Humble Boy poster for play by Charlotte Jones<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets and Performances:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p>All performances start at 7.30pm and include a 15 minute interval.<\/p>\n<p>*All tickets \u00a310. All other nights standard ticket \u00a312 (concession \u00a311).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tickets on sale now.<\/p>\n<p>Booking:\u00a0oldburyrep.org\/shows\/#humble-boy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:\u00a0<\/strong>Oldbury Rep Theatre,\u00a0Spring Walk,\u00a0Langley,\u00a0B69 4SP<\/p>\n<p>See oldburyrep.org or <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/OldburyRep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facebook.com\/OldburyRep<\/a> or call 0121 552 2761.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First performed at the Royal National Theatre in 2001 (being awarded Best New Play by the Critics\u2019 Circle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,4350],"class_list":{"0":"post-59814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-your-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114420492805669844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59814","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=59814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}