{"id":736,"date":"2018-03-28T16:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/?page_id=736"},"modified":"2018-03-28T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:30:05","slug":"mcgonagallschronicles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/mcgonagallschronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"McGonagall&#8217;s Chronicles (Which Will Be Remembered For a Very Long Time)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m in love with a man from Dundee<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Though he lived 100 years before me<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He was a poet<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He was aware of this<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I think he was brilliant<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But not everyone would agree\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His name was Sir William Topaz McGonagall.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> His life I will now attempt to chronicle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A biography of the late Dundonian poet \u2013 Sir William Topaz McGonagall written in \u2018almost rhyming verse\u2019- the only way to honour the great Dundonian man who has come to be known as the world\u2019s worst poet.<\/p>\n<p>The play is delivered by a narrator (played by writer\/performer Gary McNair) who brings McGonagall and the many other characters of his truly unique and fascinating story to life and is supported by music from Frightened Rabbit\u2019s Simon Liddell. It will be directed by multi award winning director Joe Douglas.<\/p>\n<p>A tragic comedy, McGonagall\u2019s Chronicles charts the poet\u2019s life story, tries to understand how he could be so bad at what he did and gets to the heart of the dilemma that surrounds his legend- is it okay for us to laugh at someone\u2019s obvious and relentless failings?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GaryMcGonagall2tonepurple.jpg\" alt=\"GaryMcGonagall2tonepurple\" width=\"638\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GaryMcGonagall2tonepurple.jpg 638w, https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GaryMcGonagall2tonepurple-768x1155.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I\u2019m in love with a man from Dundee Though he lived 100 years before me He was a poet He was aware of this I think he was brilliant But not everyone would agree\u00a0 His name was Sir William Topaz McGonagall. His life I will now attempt to chronicle. A biography of the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/736\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garymcnair.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}