{"id":167,"date":"2006-05-25T21:06:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T01:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/25\/theatre-3\/"},"modified":"2006-05-26T15:15:54","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T19:15:54","slug":"theatre-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/25\/theatre-3\/","title":{"rendered":"theatre (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>an episodically published poem<br \/>\nlink to <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/22\/theatre\/\">beginning<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who is the playwright?<\/p>\n<p>How can a playwright create<br \/>\nyou and come to know you<br \/>\nintimately yet he can still<br \/>\ndestroy you beloved<!--more--><br \/>\nand what of God<br \/>\nis this an insight into God&#8217;s mind<\/p>\n<p><em>fabula<\/em><\/p>\n<p>creation seems to be a virgin birth scenario<br \/>\nsitting alone I create heaven earth breath<br \/>\nchildhood youth adulthood action passion<br \/>\nI dress you create your thoughts feelings<br \/>\nI give you substance character emotion<br \/>\nyou are my child<\/p>\n<p><em>plot<\/em><br \/>\ninto your perfect life I place change<br \/>\nconflict crisis alienation isolation joy sorrow<br \/>\nthis change will rob you of joy of<br \/>\nall you have earned deserved wanted<br \/>\nI shall humiliate torture you ruin you destroy you<\/p>\n<p>How can anyone do that?<br \/>\nIs it possible to destroy<br \/>\nwhat you lovingly create?<br \/>\nAbraham was willing to kill Isaac<br \/>\nbut this is an example of<br \/>\nthe exception that proves<br \/>\nyou cannot do it.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot destroy my characters<br \/>\nis that a failure in me?<br \/>\nor is that a symptom of<br \/>\na sociopathic personality<br \/>\nMust a playwright or<br \/>\nany writer from that matter<br \/>\nby a sociopath, examining<br \/>\nhuman behaviour to imitate it<br \/>\nin plays to make us cry<br \/>\nwhile he does not?<br \/>\nDickens said he wept<br \/>\nwhen he wrote<br \/>\nthe death of little Nell<br \/>\nbut did he really?<\/p>\n<p>What is the writer<br \/>\nwhat is the playwright?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>(To be continued) <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an episodically published poem link to beginning Who is the playwright? How can a playwright create you and come to know you intimately yet he can still destroy you beloved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-on-the-process-of-writing","category-poetry","category-serial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}