{"id":4015,"date":"2012-10-24T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:43","slug":"kari-olmons-the-intense-fragility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/2012\/10\/24\/kari-olmons-the-intense-fragility\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari Olmon&#8217;s THE INTENSE FRAGILITY in the Frear on 11\/9 and 11\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <strong>The Intense Fragility<\/strong> <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Adapted from the diary of Vaslav Nijinsky &amp; the theater of Tennessee Williams<br \/>\nby Kari Olmon<br \/>\nDirected by Walter Bilderback<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>with Katie Goldman &#8217;14, Danica Harvey &#8217;15, Zack Martin &#8217;13, Meryl Sands &#8217;13, Sam Swift Shuker-Haines &#8217;13 &amp; Kassandra Sparks &#8217;15.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>In January of 1919, celebrated Russian dancer <strong>Vaslav Nijinsky<\/strong> gives his final ballet performance and begins the diary that will chronicle his descent into madness. In 1936 St. Louis, <strong>Rose Williams<\/strong> \u2013 beloved sister to renowned playwright Tennessee Williams \u2013 discovers  Nijinsky\u2019s diary and dreams of escaping into his world. Separated by  every possible spatial, temporal, and social barrier, the virtuosic  dancer and the secluded sister have one thing in common: both are  suspected of a peculiar and precocious dementia that terrifies and  repulses their families who will do anything \u2013 anything \u2013 to contain  them. A play about desire, madness, and the legacy of art, <em>The Intense Fragility<\/em> imagines an encounter outside the slipstream of history that brings two  people together in the realm of the subjunctive where anything is  possible and fantasy becomes reality.<\/div>\n<div>We welcome you to a staged reading of this piece in the<\/div>\n<div><strong>LPAC Frear Theater <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>11\/9 and 11\/10<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>7PM<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intense Fragility Adapted from the diary of Vaslav Nijinsky &amp; the theater of Tennessee Williams by Kari Olmon Directed by Walter Bilderback with Katie Goldman &#8217;14, Danica Harvey &#8217;15, Zack Martin &#8217;13, Meryl Sands &#8217;13, Sam Swift Shuker-Haines &#8217;13 &amp; Kassandra Sparks &#8217;15. In January of 1919, celebrated Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky gives his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6865,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/6865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}