{"id":922,"date":"2010-03-30T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=922"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:50","slug":"faculty-lecture-by-prof-allen-kuharski-pig-iron-theater-company-and-the-re-imagination-of-american-theater-1995-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/2010\/03\/30\/faculty-lecture-by-prof-allen-kuharski-pig-iron-theater-company-and-the-re-imagination-of-american-theater-1995-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Lecture by Prof. Allen Kuharski Provides Critical Overview of Pig Iron Theater Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Theater <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/x19083.xml\">Allen Kuharski<\/a> offers a critical overview of Pig Iron Theatre Company&#8217;s history and relationship to contemporary theater in the U.S. and beyond. First launched by a group of Swarthmore College theater alumni in 1995, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pigiron.org\/\">Pig Iron Theatre Company<\/a> is now in its 15th season as a critically-acclaimed and growing part of Philadelphia&#8217;s professional theater community. Though strongly rooted in Philadelphia, Pig Iron&#8217;s cosmopolitan, unpredictable, and highly mobile work (consisting of almost two dozen original works to date) has earned it a national and international profile. The company&#8217;s unique character and success reveal a continuation and dialog with certain aspects of the American avant-garde as well as a significant departure from much contemporary theater practice in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to Prof. Kuharski&#8217;s lecture or watch a clip of the work of Pig Iron Theater Company, click <a href=\"http:\/\/media.swarthmore.edu\/faculty_lectures\/?p=176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Theater Allen Kuharski offers a critical overview of Pig Iron Theatre Company&#8217;s history and relationship to contemporary theater in the U.S. and beyond. First launched by a group of Swarthmore College theater alumni in 1995, Pig Iron Theatre Company is now in its 15th season as a critically-acclaimed and growing part of Philadelphia&#8217;s [&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\/922"}],"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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6935,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/6935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}