{"id":705,"date":"2007-01-14T15:15:41-05:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T20:15:41+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/14\/not-clowning-around\/"},"modified":"2007-01-14T15:15:41-05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T20:15:41+00:00","slug":"not-clowning-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/14\/not-clowning-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Not clowning&nbsp;around"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>One of the great things about going to <cite class=\"term\">smaller<\/cite> events&#8212;club concerts, fringe theatre, and the like&#8212;is the chance to actually meet and talk with the people you&#8217;ve just seen perform.  At last summer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonfringe.ca\/\">London Fringe Theatre Festival<\/a> I had the opportunity to do just that with Rachelle Fordyce, an actor from Winnipeg who performed a clever, surreal mythologically-based play called <cite class=\"title\">netherwhere : etherwhen<\/cite>.  Since then I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/serendipity-wpg.livejournal.com\/\">her weblog<\/a> about being in and around the Canadian theatre scene.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>She&#8217;s currently in Toronto attending a <cite class=\"title\">Clown Through Mask Workshop<\/cite>, which has given rise to an interesting series of posts.  <a href=\"http:\/\/serendipity-wpg.livejournal.com\/32834.html\">Friday&#8217;s entry<\/a> describes two exercises, the first of which sounds like a variation on a meditation technique I learned years ago.  At the &#8217;05 Fringe I had a short discussion with a director (also from Winnipeg, although he&#8217;s moved here) who&#8217;s familiar with the structure and etiquette of using masks in the theatre; from Rachelle&#8217;s descriptive journals it sounds like this course is very much about teaching and preserving that tradition.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the great things about going to smaller events&#8212;club concerts, fringe theatre, and the like&#8212;is the chance to actually meet and talk with the people you&#8217;ve just seen perform. At last summer&#8217;s London Fringe Theatre Festival I had the opportunity to do just that with Rachelle Fordyce, an actor from Winnipeg who performed a&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}