{"id":220,"date":"2014-12-05T20:20:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T20:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=220"},"modified":"2014-12-09T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:51:27","slug":"challenging-drama-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/12\/05\/challenging-drama-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging drama on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3rd year drama students, as the Axiom Theatre Company, produced Sarah Kane&#8217;s <em>4:48 Psychosis<\/em> in Studio 2 on the College Road Campus this week. This is a challenging work, debuting posthumously after Kane&#8217;s suicide in 1999 and exploring the dark areas of the mind. The staging needs to be imaginative as Kane&#8217;s script provides us only with the lines of dialogue, leaving the director to establish who speaks and the context. The director chose to interpret the dialogue as shared between a doctor and a number of patients, each demonstrating different symptoms displayed by the lines in the text. The company&#8217;s imaginative construction of back-stories for their characters was an innovative dimension to the actual staging.<\/p>\n<p>It was good to see English and CW students &#8211; some of whom will be studying Kane&#8217;s <em>Blasted<\/em> next term &#8211; supporting their drama peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3rd year drama students, as the Axiom Theatre Company, produced Sarah Kane&#8217;s 4:48 Psychosis in Studio 2 on the College Road Campus this week. This is a challenging work, debuting posthumously after Kane&#8217;s suicide in 1999 and exploring the dark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/12\/05\/challenging-drama-on-campus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}