Janet<\/em> (Biased? Not really, it had some harsh words towards the Media and showed an anger that surprised me)and the last play, The Zoo-Keeper’s Love Song<\/i> a funny story of a semi-disfunctional family versus a has-been American Slasher movie queen. Suitably impressed for Emma since she had to pare down her play 10 minutes a few days before, and she was up against some much older teens (she’s 14). I think she held her own and did a great job. <\/p>\nOf course she came out of the dressing room wearing a cool t-shirt that made me so envious. <\/p>\n
Check it out, it’s free, but call ahead. It sells out the day of the performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I went to Tarragon Theatre’s Paprika Festival last Sunday to watch under-21s act, direct and write. My brother’s daughter, Emma had a play which she wrote and had a part in. Topical stuff, especially with the whole “guns in schools” thing happening again. She was the grubby, punk kid involved in a school shooting. Out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WjY-2p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}