{"id":373346,"date":"2026-01-16T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373346\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:40:08","slug":"inbetweeners-dad-to-star-in-top-gs-like-me-play-set-in-a-northampton-skatepark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373346\/","title":{"rendered":"Inbetweeners dad to star in Top G&#8217;s Like Me play set in a Northampton skatepark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The auditorium will be &#8220;totally transformed&#8221; to reflect the local skatepark, which was originally built in 1992 and closed in 2004 because it was deemed to be unprofitable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-northamptonshire-18927139\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">re-opened<\/a> in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cast will be joined by a community chorus, the &#8220;internet ensemble&#8221;, representing the online world on stage and made up of 25 third-year drama students from the University of Northampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones added: &#8220;It brings me so much pride to be platforming urgent new writing on our largest stage, transforming our Derngate auditorium into Northampton&#8217;s Radlands Plaza skatepark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is provocative and painfully funny, bringing the addictive and dark world of social media shorts and reels onto the stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A workshop set up alongside the play will create 360 pieces of street art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Top G&#8217;s Like Me, by Samson Hawkins, runs from 23 February to 7 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The auditorium will be &#8220;totally transformed&#8221; to reflect the local skatepark, which was originally built in 1992 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-373346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}