{"id":233,"date":"2007-03-24T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=233"},"modified":"2007-03-24T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T15:14:00","slug":"lion-in-winter-by-james-goldman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2007\/03\/lion-in-winter-by-james-goldman.html","title":{"rendered":"The Lion in Winter by James Goldman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0812973356\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">The Lion in Winter<\/a> is a play I&#8217;m thinking about directing.  It&#8217;s a very witty script, very sharp and cruel.  It would require good actors with good diction and a facility for remembering lines, as there seem to be a lot of them and a lot that are nearly repeats of each other.  Similar lines can be difficult for actors because you can easily find yourself having either skipped a section or gone backwards in a loop.<\/p>\n<p>The basic story is from history &#8211; a king and queen (Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine) fighting over which of their sons will inherit the kingdom.  To complicate things, Henry happens to be sleeping with the girl meant to marry the future king.  The overarching question is: do Henry and Eleanor love each other and did they ever?  No one in the story can be believed or trusted.  I expect the audience would walk out feeling dizzy.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fairly popular piece for community theater but somehow I haven&#8217;t seen it, which I prefer if I&#8217;m going to direct a show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lion in Winter is a play I&#8217;m thinking about directing. It&#8217;s a very witty script, very sharp and cruel. It would require good actors with good diction and a facility for remembering lines, as there seem to be a lot of them and a lot that are nearly repeats of each other. Similar lines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theaterplays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}