{"id":180,"date":"2018-02-18T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T17:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/ias\/?p=180"},"modified":"2020-02-10T18:56:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T23:56:50","slug":"from-the-directors-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/ias\/2018\/02\/from-the-directors-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"From the director&#8217;s chair&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I first discovered <em>Almost an Evening<\/em> when I was a senior in undergrad by accident in a bookstore. I bought it without reading it because it was the only play in the section that wasn\u2019t Shakespeare or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Death of a Salesman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. I would later host a table reading of sorts with my friends during a hurricane when we had nothing else to do but eat pretzels and wait for the storm to pass and school to continue. In this way <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Almost an Evening <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">launched to the top of my \u201cif I could direct another show\u201d list and became the natural first choice when I applied to the Independent Artist Series. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had some reservations at first, if you didn\u2019t notice on the poster this play come with a lot of warning labels; there\u2019s a gun, three deaths, lots of swearing, and quite a few adult topics. But art is like that sometimes. Not everything is pleasant and unaffecting. Some art is gross or even potentially offensive. Ethan Coen isn\u2019t being lewd for no reason he\u2019s doing it to make you laugh, and then think about why you laughed. Then maybe laugh because you\u2019re thinking about really silly things like a spy in a sauna. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When my friends and I read this play we climbed on my furniture, jumped from chairs and hung from my balcony trying to figure out how weird we could make it. While there\u2019s no balconies to hang from in Hiestand 100 it\u2019s definitely gonna get weird so, please, only sit in the front row if you\u2019re ready. And with that happy warning aside, I hope you enjoy the show as much as I did when I first read it years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mackenzie Kirkman<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Graduate Student \u201819<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tickets for Almost an Evening are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/almost-an-evening-tickets-43032295755\">here<\/a>. Tickets are free, but seating is limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first discovered Almost an Evening when I was a senior in undergrad by accident in a bookstore. I bought it without reading it because it was the only play in the section that wasn\u2019t Shakespeare or Death of a Salesman. I would later host a table reading of sorts with my friends during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}