{"id":3007,"date":"2020-05-28T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T13:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=3007"},"modified":"2024-05-07T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T12:16:52","slug":"lustgarten-anders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=3007","title":{"rendered":"Lustgarten, Anders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Activist-playwright Anders Lustgarten has Hungarian Jewish ancestry via his left-wing American immigrant parents who brought him up in Oxford, England. He turned to playwriting in 2007. Lustgarten began writing plays, teaching Drama in prison in America being a political activist. His political activism has led to his arrest on four continents. He has previously written about the plight of refugees and a play about the Italian artist Caravaggio, which premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is know for his anti-capitalist polemic and &#8220;not giving a fuck&#8221; about the theatre establishment. In 2011, Lustgarten won the Harold Pinter Playwright&#8217;s Award for <em>If You Don&#8217;t Let Us Dream We Won&#8217;t Let You Sleep<\/em> at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs. Lustgarten&#8217;s original play <em>The Seven Acts of Mercy<\/em> was directed by Erica Whyman and performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist-playwright Anders Lustgarten has Hungarian Jewish ancestry via his left-wing American immigrant parents who brought him up in Oxford, England. He turned to playwriting in 2007. Lustgarten began writing plays, teaching Drama in prison in America being a political activist. His political activism has led to his arrest on four continents. He has previously written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":563,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3007","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3007\/revisions\/3204"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}