{"id":183,"date":"2006-06-09T22:52:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T02:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/09\/theatre-13\/"},"modified":"2006-06-10T20:58:27","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T00:58:27","slug":"theatre-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/09\/theatre-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre (13)"},"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>Most of them are here<br \/>\nan hour before curtain<br \/>\nas the contract says<br \/>\nmakes a difference<br \/>\nI can recall there was a time<!--more--><br \/>\nyou could be calling places and<br \/>\ntwo or three would come in<br \/>\njust at the last in time<br \/>\nto get the places for opening<br \/>\nall made up but<br \/>\nthe stage manager would be dying<\/p>\n<p>No more<\/p>\n<p>Equity put an end to that<br \/>\nat least they were<br \/>\nready to say actors were<br \/>\nprofessionals and why not<\/p>\n<p>So they come in before seven<br \/>\nfor an eight o&#8217;clock curtain<br \/>\nas well they should<br \/>\nand every actor is ready<\/p>\n<p>They stand onstage<br \/>\nbefore the house opens<br \/>\nhumming and rocking<br \/>\ncommunicating<br \/>\nwith Zen or something<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nbut it seems to have made<br \/>\nall of them get religion<br \/>\nthe religion of acting<br \/>\none of them explained it to me<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a mantra<br \/>\nthat gets you into the zone<br \/>\nlets you see how sacred<br \/>\nyour character is<br \/>\nyou believe in the character<br \/>\nyou become the character<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about that:<br \/>\nmy list just says it&#8217;s<br \/>\n7:06 pm and two actors<br \/>\nhave broken the contract<br \/>\nDo I call the stage manager<br \/>\nand tell him so<br \/>\nhe can call understudies?<\/p>\n<p>Here they are:<br \/>\nboth looking worried<br \/>\nfull of excuses<br \/>\ncar caught in traffic<\/p>\n<p>huh<br \/>\ntell it to the stage manager<br \/>\nand make it good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an episodically published poem link to beginning Most of them are here an hour before curtain as the contract says makes a difference I can recall there was a time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry","category-serial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}