{"id":45213,"date":"2014-07-17T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d05f100421c18eae13db91f9fd2bbda9"},"modified":"2014-07-17T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:57:22","slug":"news-story-culture-secretary-reappoints-trustee-of-the-theatres-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45213","title":{"rendered":"News story: Culture Secretary reappoints Trustee of the Theatres Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"biography\">Biography<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"dame-penelope-keith-dl\">Dame Penelope Keith DL<\/h3>\n<p>Dame Penelope Keith, is an English actress, best known for her roles in the British sitcoms \u2018The Good Life\u2019 and \u2018To the Manor Born\u2019. She began her career in repertory theatre before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963, her theatre credits include Alan Ayckbourn\u2019s \u2018The Norman Conquests\u2019 and Michael \u2018Frayn\u2019s Donkeys\u2019 Years\u2019 for which she won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance.<\/p>\n<p>Since the late 1990s, she has worked mainly in the theatre, including Keith Waterstone\u2019s \u2018Good Grief\u2019, No\u00ebl Coward\u2019s \u2018Blithe Spirit\u2019, Richard Everett\u2019s \u2018Entertaining Angels\u2019 and as Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde\u2019s \u2018The Importance of Being Earnest\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>She succeeded Lord Olivier as president of the Actors\u2019 Benevolent Fund and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1990, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2007, and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to the arts and to charity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport reappoints Dame Penelope Keith DL as member of the Theatres Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}