{"id":898,"date":"2026-01-22T20:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/?p=898"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:04:57","slug":"nqscs-festive-adventure-full-of-laughter-surprises-and-political-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"NQSC\u2019s Festive Adventure Full of Laughter, Surprises, and Political Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"834\" src=\"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ELEPHANT-1024x834.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ELEPHANT-1024x834.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ELEPHANT-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ELEPHANT-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ELEPHANT-768x625.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ELEPHANT-1536x1251.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ELEPHANT-2048x1668.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Christmas season often brings with it a flurry of festive performances, but none quite as delightfully unconventional as \u201cAround the World in 80 Days-ish.\u201d Staged with a sparkling sense of humour, this show proved a riotous hit with audiences over three nights at Quorn Village Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phineas Blogg, our protagonist, embarked on his remarkable adventure with his loyal and extravagantly French servant, Passpartout, a witty and sarcastic Sat Nav, and a variety of unusual companions met along the way. Father Christmas, Kier Starmer, Donald Trump, and Nigel Farage &#8211; unaccountably omitted from the Jules Verne version &#8211; helped or hindered our hero in his quest.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The limitations of staging travel by train, ocean liner, hot air balloon and elephant in a Village Hall were ingeniously overcome \u2013 although the pantomime elephant did bear a remarkable resemblance to a Friesian cow\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Quorndon Shakespeare company is now planning an Old Time Music Hall show for Spring of 2026 and has already booked Quorn Village Hall for its Christmas 2026 extravaganza.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director, Sharon Scott said: \u201cWe are always happy to welcome new members to our friendly group.&nbsp;&nbsp;Whether you want to act, run the sound, help build pantomime elephants, or simply join us on a trip to the Curve, email us on&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:nqsc@ymail.com\">nqsc@ymail.com<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas season often brings with it a flurry of festive performances, but none quite as delightfully unconventional as \u201cAround the World in 80 Days-ish.\u201d Staged with a sparkling sense of humour, this show proved a riotous hit with audiences&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}