{"id":378,"date":"2018-11-07T14:25:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T14:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=378"},"modified":"2018-11-10T19:41:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T19:41:33","slug":"sarah-guppy-the-bridge-the-bed-the-truth-opens-tonight-to-great-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/sarah-guppy-the-bridge-the-bed-the-truth-opens-tonight-to-great-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Guppy: The Bridge, The Bed, The Truth opens to great reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;You won\u2019t look at Isambard Kingdom Brunel or the Clifton Suspension Bridge in quite the same way ever again after seeing this piece.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yearofengineering.gov.uk\/\">Year of Engineering<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vote100.uk\/\">Centenary of Women\u2019s Suffrage<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/showofstrength.org.uk\/\">Show of Strength<\/a>\u00a0are bringing us the opportunity to learn more about Bristol pioneer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/showofstrength.org.uk\/productions\/sarah-guppy\">Sarah Guppy<\/a>, the first woman to patent a bridge and formally design one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/sarah-guppy-the-bridge-the-bed-the-truth\/\">Sarah Guppy: The Bridge, The Bed, The Truth<\/a>&#8216; continues tonight at the Hen and Chicken in Bristol, with further showings on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Find out what to expect in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristol247.com\/culture\/theatre\/review-sarah-guppy-the-bridge-the-bed-the-truth-show-of-strength-bristol\/\">excellent review<\/a> from Bristol 24\/7: <em>&#8220;an inspiring and witty homage to someone who deserves a far more central place in Bristol\u2019s \u2013 and Britain\u2019s \u2013 commercial and industrial history&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-321 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Kim-Hicks-as-Sarah-Guppy-c-Zuleika-Henry-2-1-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Kim-Hicks-as-Sarah-Guppy-c-Zuleika-Henry-2-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Kim-Hicks-as-Sarah-Guppy-c-Zuleika-Henry-2-1-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Kim-Hicks-as-Sarah-Guppy-c-Zuleika-Henry-2-1-1024x822.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Kim-Hicks-as-Sarah-Guppy-c-Zuleika-Henry-2-1-1200x963.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Kim-Hicks-as-Sarah-Guppy-c-Zuleika-Henry-2-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 85vw, 295px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sarah Guppy: The Bridge, The Bed, The Truth<\/em>\u00a0is on at the\u00a0<strong>Hen &amp; Chicken<\/strong>\u00a0in Bedminster on\u00a0<strong>6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November<\/strong>\u00a0at 8.30 pm, at the\u00a0<strong>Create Centre<\/strong>\u00a0in Hotwells on\u00a0<strong>8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November<\/strong>\u00a0at 4 pm and 6.30 pm and\u00a0<strong>The Savoy Theatre<\/strong>in Monmouth on\u00a0<strong>10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November<\/strong>\u00a0at 2 pm. The performance lasts an hour and the first night will be attended by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/cleo-lake-elected-new-lord-1597637\">Lord Mayor. Cllr Cleo Lake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information and to buy tickets, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.showofstrength.org.uk\/\">www.showofstrength.org.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You won\u2019t look at Isambard Kingdom Brunel or the Clifton Suspension Bridge in quite the same way ever again after seeing this piece.&#8221; In the\u00a0Year of Engineering\u00a0and\u00a0Centenary of Women\u2019s Suffrage,\u00a0Show of Strength\u00a0are bringing us the opportunity to learn more about Bristol pioneer\u00a0Sarah Guppy, the first woman to patent a bridge and formally design one. &#8216;Sarah &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/sarah-guppy-the-bridge-the-bed-the-truth-opens-tonight-to-great-reviews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sarah Guppy: The Bridge, The Bed, The Truth opens to great reviews&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[69,68],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-year-of-engineering","tag-sarah-guppy","tag-show-of-strength"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}