{"id":171,"date":"2006-05-29T20:15:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T00:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/29\/theatre-5\/"},"modified":"2006-05-30T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T22:46:08","slug":"theatre-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/29\/theatre-5\/","title":{"rendered":"theatre (5)"},"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>in box<br \/>\npiles of paper<br \/>\nscripts<br \/>\nproposals<br \/>\ntreatments<br \/>\nletters of inquiry<br \/>\nbegging frustrated hopeless<!--more--><br \/>\nhopeful lists of awards<br \/>\ncredentials CVs<br \/>\nletters of recommendation<br \/>\noutbox<br \/>\npiles of paper<br \/>\ndogearred pencil notes<br \/>\npost-its<br \/>\nletters to go<br \/>\nscripts<br \/>\nproposals<br \/>\ntreatments<br \/>\ngarbage<\/p>\n<p>A little sacred stack<br \/>\nof possibilities<br \/>\nterra incognita<br \/>\nhere there be monsters<\/p>\n<p>A shelf of possibilities<br \/>\npublished scripts<br \/>\nby known playwrights<br \/>\nwith known track records<\/p>\n<p>The director dreams<br \/>\na sacred stack of monsters<br \/>\na shelf of known positives<br \/>\non the stage in the dream<br \/>\nenergy, passion action<br \/>\nin the audience<br \/>\ntears applause laughter<br \/>\nagreement discovery amazement<br \/>\nthe energy soars to a heart pumping climax<br \/>\nthe actor thrusts a hand up towards the gods<br \/>\nthe crowd cannot breathe as his gaze<br \/>\nslowly falls upon the shattered flesh<br \/>\nof his poor tortured daughter<\/p>\n<p>do I choose this ugly but intelligent possibility<br \/>\nor this sweet known crowd pleaser<\/p>\n<p>do I stage a play that defines us<br \/>\nbut will lose money or do I<br \/>\ngo with a proven dandy<br \/>\nthat will keep everyone employed<br \/>\nor do I take a chance that I can<br \/>\nhype the unproven play<br \/>\nand make it work<\/p>\n<p>and the answer is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an episodically published poem link to beginning in box piles of paper scripts proposals treatments letters of inquiry begging frustrated hopeless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}