{"id":7082,"date":"2015-10-27T13:18:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:35","slug":"production-ensemble-2015-a-bright-room-called-day-1113-1115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/2015\/10\/27\/production-ensemble-2015-a-bright-room-called-day-1113-1115\/","title":{"rendered":"Production Ensemble 2015: A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY (11\/13-11\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/PosterABRDforweb1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7087\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/PosterABRDforweb1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Poster Bright Room Called Day\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/PosterABRDforweb1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/PosterABRDforweb1.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>About the Play<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cWe live in Berlin. It&#8217;s 1932. I feel relatively safe, &#8221; says Agnes Eggling as she and her friends watch Adolf Hitler\u2019s rise to power from the relative safety of her Berlin apartment. Meanwhile, Zillah, who lives in 2015, can\u2019t help but notice some terrifying parallels with current day politics and Weimar Germany. Tony Kushner\u2019s<em><strong> A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY<\/strong><\/em> is \u201cunabashedly political, thought-provoking, a little scary, and frequently a good deal of theatrical fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Playwright<\/strong><br \/>\nTony Kushner was born in New York City in 1956. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, best known for his 1993 two-part epic Angel in America, as well as the screenplay for the 2012 film Lincoln. President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Arts in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LPAC Pearson-Hall Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>8PM Friday 11\/13<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2PM &amp; 8PM Saturday 11\/14<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2PM Sunday 11\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directed by K. Elizabeth Stevens, Set &amp; Media Design by Jorge Cousineau, Costume Design by Laila Swanson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Play \u201cWe live in Berlin. It&#8217;s 1932. I feel relatively safe, &#8221; says Agnes Eggling as she and her friends watch Adolf Hitler\u2019s rise to power from the relative safety of her Berlin apartment. Meanwhile, Zillah, who lives in 2015, can\u2019t help but notice some terrifying parallels with current day politics and Weimar [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082"}],"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=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7090,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions\/7090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}