{"id":172,"date":"2006-05-30T18:45:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T22:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/30\/theatre-6\/"},"modified":"2006-05-31T13:15:05","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T17:15:05","slug":"theatre-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/30\/theatre-6\/","title":{"rendered":"theatre (6)"},"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>From the choice of this script<br \/>\ncome these performance demands<\/p>\n<p>conviction in comedy<br \/>\nvulnerability in tragedy<br \/>\nhubris in irony<!--more--><br \/>\nblindness in romance<br \/>\nsympathy in conquest<\/p>\n<p>a man went to a psychiatrist:<br \/>\nI am so sad I can hardly<br \/>\nbring myself to stay living \u2014<br \/>\noh, then I know how to cure you:<br \/>\ngo to see Magnifique, the clown;<br \/>\nhe is the funniest man alive<br \/>\nhe will cure you \u2014<br \/>\nthat is impossible; I shall surely die \u2014<br \/>\nand why is that?<br \/>\n\u2014 I am Magnifique the clown.<\/p>\n<p>How to distinguish between<br \/>\nthe virtuoso and the pretender<br \/>\nthe audition ace and the artist<br \/>\nsome of the greatest actors<br \/>\ncannot sight read<br \/>\ncan you cast the perfect thespian<br \/>\ncan you work with this artist<br \/>\ncan you seek dedication<br \/>\nfor the pittance you can pay?<\/p>\n<p>Who has the chops for the role<br \/>\nwho will carry it off with verve and light<br \/>\nevery performance<br \/>\nwhom can we count on to<br \/>\nmeld with the company<br \/>\nhold the audience<br \/>\nbe truly professional<br \/>\nwithout a lot of baggage?<\/p>\n<p>Who will bring magic to this play?<\/p>\n<p>I choose \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an episodically published poem link to beginning From the choice of this script come these performance demands conviction in comedy vulnerability in tragedy hubris in irony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","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=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}