{"id":13841,"date":"2022-01-26T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13841"},"modified":"2022-04-20T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T10:21:57","slug":"shows-by-brendan-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13841","title":{"rendered":"Shows by Brendan Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While the City Adventurers were in Edinburgh last year we went to see Brendan Murphy in his one man play \u201cFriend\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-is-friend\"><strong>FRIEND tells the whole&nbsp;<em>F.R.I.E.N.D.S<\/em>&nbsp;saga from the point of view of Gunther, the barista in Central Perk.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>One man, one hour, ten seasons. You wonder how he will be able to encompass the entire 236 episodes of the hit 90s TV show into just an hour. But somehow he manages it. With lots of costume changes and voice changes, he introduces the cast and tells the inside story of what happened to Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Chandler, Monica and Joey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/12\/20210817_190605.jpg\" alt=\"Friend - The one with Gunter - photo by Juliamaud\" class=\"wp-image-3241\"\/><figcaption>Friend \u2013 The one with Gunther \u2013 photo by Juliamaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"buffy-revamped-and-friendbrendan-murphy-is-an-actor-writer-performer-and-comedian\"><strong>So we were especially pleased to see his new play \u201cBUFFY \u2013 REVAMPED\u201d.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>One hour. Seven seasons. One Spike. You get the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time Brendan Murphy plays Spike and runs you quickly through the entire 144 episodes of the hit 90s TV show,&nbsp;<strong>Buffy the Vampire Slayer.<\/strong>&nbsp;Again, a fantastic night out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"brendan-murphy-is-someone-to-watch-out-for\">Brendan Murphy is someone to watch out for\u2026..<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notmurphy.weebly.com\/\">https:\/\/notmurphy.weebly.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onewithgunther.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/onewithgunther.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Join City Adventurers and start exploring\u2026..<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Join our club for people who want to live life to the full. Just&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/cityadventurers?fan_landing=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click the link&nbsp;<\/a>and join the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/cityadventurers?fan_landing=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">club<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the City Adventurers were in Edinburgh last year we went to see Brendan Murphy in his one man play \u201cFriend\u201d. FRIEND tells the whole&nbsp;F.R.I.E.N.D.S&nbsp;saga from the point of view of Gunther, the barista in Central Perk. One man, one hour, ten seasons. You wonder how he will be able to encompass the entire 236 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13841\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shows by Brendan Murphy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,345],"tags":[1527,9,1528,702],"class_list":["post-13841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activity","category-theatre","tag-brendan-murphy","tag-city-adventurers","tag-friend","tag-friends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shows by Brendan Murphy - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13841\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shows by Brendan Murphy - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While the City Adventurers were in Edinburgh last year we went to see Brendan Murphy in his one man play \u201cFriend\u201d. 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