{"id":3816,"date":"2014-03-14T03:51:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T03:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2014-03-14T03:51:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T03:51:41","slug":"the-suitorscommedia-double-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/the-suitorscommedia-double-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Suitors\/Commedia Double Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a title=\"syracuse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.syrsf.org\/\">Syracuse Shakespeare Festival<\/a><\/h2>\n<h1 dir=\"ltr\">April 4 &#8211; April 14, 2014<\/h1>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">[button url=&#8221;http:\/\/syrsf.ticketleap.com\/&#8221; target=&#8221;blank&#8221;]Buy Tickets[\/button]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Our second plunge into 17th century French comedy gives us even more laughs than last year\u2019s Molierean tickler. \u00a0It\u2019s another comedy by a French icon,\u00a0<em><strong>The Suitors,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Jean Racine, Judith Harris directing; one of the most hilarious French plays ever written, Racine&#8217;s only comedy (1688), tells of a judge named Nigaud who has lost his mind from overwork but is still possessed with the desire to go to court and try cases day and night. \u00a0After a brief intermission the second half of this double bill gives you,\u00a0<strong><em>Commedia dell\u2019Arte,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Lynn Barbato directing; the roots of improvisation date back to 16th century Italy where \u201cstock\u201d character types mocked social conventions and they&#8217;ll be mocking unconventionally for your laughter and delight. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syracuse Shakespeare Festival April 4 &#8211; April 14, 2014 [button url=&#8221;http:\/\/syrsf.ticketleap.com\/&#8221; target=&#8221;blank&#8221;]Buy Tickets[\/button]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syracuse-shakes","category-us-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}