{"id":11225,"date":"2011-01-03T04:26:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T04:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11225"},"modified":"2011-11-14T02:25:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:25:53","slug":"the-quadroon-ball-on-stage-one-week-only-oct-13-17-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11225","title":{"rendered":"The Quadroon Ball on stage one week only Oct. 13-17 [2010]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestar.edu\/16173.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Quadroon Ball on stage one week only Oct. 13-17 [2010]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestar.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Lone Star College<\/a><br \/>\nThe Woodlands, Texas<br \/>\n2010-09-22<\/p>\n<p>Lone Star College-CyFair Drama Department presents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/01\/01\/arts\/damon-wright-48-playwright-and-reporter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Damon Wright&#8217;s<\/a> play &#8220;The Quadroon Ball&#8221; on stage Oct. 13 through Oct. 17 [2010].<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Quadroon Ball&#8221; is a moving drama taking place in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> just prior to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a>.\u00a0 It focuses on the women of mixed race who were prized for their beauty and yet regarded as second-class citizens, said LSC-CyFair Director Ron Jones. The play traces the life of a beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1146http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1146\" target=\"_blank\">Quadroon<\/a> woman (one quarter black and three quarters white) whose life is affected both by the man of royalty who loves her and the presence of slavery in society.<\/p>\n<p>With a cast of 22 community and college actors, this poignant and elegant story begins as Jeanette is introduced at a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cotillion\" target=\"_blank\">cotillion<\/a> for women of her stature and continues for 20 years, marking her rise to fame and her ultimate demise.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>The New York Times<\/em>, &#8220;Damon Wright&#8217;s &#8216;The Quadroon Ball&#8217; is an intelligent, affecting new play about race, family, honor and freedom.&#8221;\u00a0 Jones adds that this play is for mature audiences only due to adult subject matter and graphic language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quadroon Ball on stage one week only Oct. 13-17 [2010] Lone Star College The Woodlands, Texas 2010-09-22 Lone Star College-CyFair Drama Department presents Damon Wright&#8217;s play &#8220;The Quadroon Ball&#8221; on stage Oct. 13 through Oct. 17 [2010]. &#8220;The Quadroon Ball&#8221; is a moving drama taking place in New Orleans just prior to the Civil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13,8,6940,20],"tags":[5018,5017,5019],"class_list":["post-11225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-damon-wright","tag-lone-star-college","tag-the-quadroon-ball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}