{"id":421,"date":"2010-12-02T17:28:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T22:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2010-12-02T18:08:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T23:08:56","slug":"magnificent-opening-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Magnificent Opening Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To use the adjective of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superfluitiesredux.com\/2010\/12\/02\/production-photographs-from-what-she-knew\/\" target=\"_blank\">playwright\/director<\/a>, our most talented actress was luminous last night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jocasta1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-424\" title=\"jocasta1\" src=\"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jocasta1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jocasta1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jocasta1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also received today some kind words and lurid expectations of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreminima.org\/upcoming\/whatsheknew.html\" target=\"_blank\">What She Knew<\/a> from the impresario extraordinaire himself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/travsd\/5189512711\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trav S. D.<\/a>, in the current issue of\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevillager.com\/villager_397\/babyitshot.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Villager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am luridly expectant at the prospect of seeing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What She Knew\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d  playwright and critic George Hunka\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s retelling of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oedipus Rex\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from  Jocasta\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point of view. In this production, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153First of the Red Hot  Mamas\u00e2\u20ac\u009d will be played by Gabriele Schafer. Schafer is best known as one  half of the company Thieves Theatre, which she ran for many years with  her husband Nick Fracaro, and was most notorious for a theatre piece  they did in the early 90s in which they lived in a teepee at the foot of  the Brooklyn Bridge for several months. More recently, I saw Schafer  play both Hamlet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father and mother in a Butoh-influenced version of  the Shakespeare play (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Q1: The Bad Hamlet\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d produced by New World  Theatre). The hair-raising performances I saw makes me to think there  couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a better person to do an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153erotically transgressive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  one-woman show about Oedipus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother. The production is under the  rubric of Hunka\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s company, Theatre Minima, and will be playing at  Manhattan Theatre Source, December 1-11. For more info:  www.theatreminima.org.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To use the adjective of our playwright\/director, our most talented actress was luminous last night. We also received today some kind words and lurid expectations of What She Knew from the impresario extraordinaire himself, Trav S. D., in the current issue of\u00c2\u00a0 The Villager. I am luridly expectant at the prospect of seeing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What She Knew\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d playwright and critic George Hunka\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s retelling of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oedipus Rex\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from Jocasta\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point of view. In this production, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153First of the Red Hot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=421\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}