{"id":12646,"date":"2017-05-03T13:11:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=12646"},"modified":"2017-05-03T13:11:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:11:36","slug":"the-blacks-a-clown-show-theatrical-performance-2017-may-20-730-p-m","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/the-blacks-a-clown-show-theatrical-performance-2017-may-20-730-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blacks: A Clown Show theatrical performance (2017-May-20 @ 7:30 p.m.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blackfriars Theatre<\/strong> will host a performance of <strong>The Blacks: A Clown Show<\/strong> by <strong>Jean Genet<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A troupe of black actors reenact the rape and murder of a white woman before a kangaroo court and thus begins The Blacks: A Clown Show a play that examines racism and oppression through the ritualistic reenactment of a murder where all the participants are played by black actors &mdash; even the white characters. Written by Jean Genet at the request of a black actor, The Blacks \"flows as freely as an improvisation, with fantasy, allegory and intimations of reality mingled into a weird, stirring unity&#8230;Genet's investigation of the color black begins where most plays of this burning theme leave off.\" &mdash;Howard Taubman, New York Times<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>[source: <a HREF=\"https:\/\/breadandwatertheatre.org\/box_office\/onstage.htm\">Bread and Water Theatre website<\/a>, 2017-May-1]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackfriars Theatre will host a performance of The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet. A troupe of black actors reenact the rape and murder of a white woman before a kangaroo court and thus begins The Blacks: A Clown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/the-blacks-a-clown-show-theatrical-performance-2017-may-20-730-p-m\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3208],"class_list":["post-12646","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-jayceland-2017-may-18","cat_jayceland-2017-may-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12707,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12646\/revisions\/12707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12646"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=12646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}