{"id":91306,"date":"2023-04-03T00:29:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T07:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91306"},"modified":"2023-04-03T00:29:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T07:29:55","slug":"brokeback-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/04\/03\/brokeback-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Brokeback Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch university recently cancelled a production of <strong>Samuel Beckett<\/strong>\u2019s play <strong><em>Waiting for Godot<\/em><\/strong> because only men were cast.&nbsp; It should be noted that all of the characters in the play are male, which wouldn\u2019t stop many directors today.&nbsp; This situation is not without precedent.&nbsp; Back in 1988, a professional Dutch theatre company produced the play with a woman in one of the roles.&nbsp; Since Mr. Beckett was still alive at the time, he sued the company \u2013 and won!<\/p>\n<p>A stage version of <strong>Annie Proulx<\/strong>\u2019s best-selling novel <strong><em>Brokeback Mountain<\/em><\/strong> is headed to the <em>West End<\/em>.&nbsp; The new adaptation, written by <strong>Ashley Robinson<\/strong>, will be headlined by two of the hottest men in the business \u2013 <strong>Lucas Hedges <\/strong>and <strong>Mike Faist<\/strong>.&nbsp; But, this is not simply a play.&nbsp; Buried in the press release, it says, \u201coriginal songs will be performed by <strong>Eddi Reader<\/strong>\u201d, who plays The Balladeer.&nbsp; I suppose I\u2019d be more concerned if I read who the choreographer was.&nbsp; All will be revealed on the opening night of May 18<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; It\u2019s scheduled to run at <em>SoHo Place <\/em>through August 12<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch university recently cancelled a production of Samuel Beckett\u2019s play Waiting for Godot because only men were cast.&nbsp; It should be noted that all of the characters in the play are male, which wouldn\u2019t stop many directors today.&nbsp; This situation is not without precedent.&nbsp; Back in 1988, a professional Dutch theatre company produced the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91307,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91306\/revisions\/91307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}