{"id":278,"date":"2008-03-19T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=278"},"modified":"2008-03-19T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T19:51:00","slug":"goat-or-who-is-sylvia-by-edward-albee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2008\/03\/goat-or-who-is-sylvia-by-edward-albee.html","title":{"rendered":"The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? by Edward Albee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only word that can possibly describe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1585673641\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">The Goat<\/a> is: bizarre.  I can&#8217;t wait to see how this goes over.  It&#8217;s a lively script and shouldn&#8217;t be hard to watch, except that it&#8217;s over-the-top weird.  It&#8217;s also got a long stretch of unrelieved turmoil.  That can be tough&#8211;people screaming for half an hour straight.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m designing the lights for <a href=\"http:\/\/hitw.org\/news0707-01.html\">this show<\/a>.  The lights will be very easy because it&#8217;s an indoor unit set with no special effects.  All I&#8217;ve got to do is make sure you can see the actors while they talk about goat loving.  Actually, I&#8217;m cleaning that up.  They really talk about goat <em>fucking<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m part of design process, I ought to understand what&#8217;s meant by this script in which a man loves a goat (I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m giving away much of a surprise here&#8211;the fact comes out pretty early), but I don&#8217;t.  Probably the son&#8217;s being homosexual is no coincidence.  Not to say that I think having a father who loves goats would turn you into a homosexual, only that I&#8217;m guessing Albee is making some kind of point here.  About the love that dare not speak it&#8217;s name.  Or something.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a lot of faith in this director.  We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only word that can possibly describe The Goat is: bizarre. I can&#8217;t wait to see how this goes over. It&#8217;s a lively script and shouldn&#8217;t be hard to watch, except that it&#8217;s over-the-top weird. It&#8217;s also got a long stretch of unrelieved turmoil. That can be tough&#8211;people screaming for half an hour straight. I&#8217;m [&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-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theaterplays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}