{"id":12433,"date":"2011-03-03T16:57:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12433"},"modified":"2011-03-03T17:01:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:01:59","slug":"sister-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12433","title":{"rendered":"Sister Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sister Act
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\nGazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
\n<\/a>2011-03-02<\/p>\n

Topher Forhecz<\/strong>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Montgomery College<\/a> and Doorway Arts Ensemble<\/a> presents the sisterly story \u2018Tether<\/a>\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

When Julie Taiwo Oni wrote the play “Tether,” she did so not only to examine her relationship with her twin sister Jessica Kehinde Ngo, but also to answer a recurring question.<\/p>\n

“My whole life everyone’s like \u2018What’s it like to be a twin?'” Oni says. “I wanted to write a play about it.”<\/p>\n

Co-Produced by Doorway Arts Ensemble and Montgomery College’s Arts Alive Theatre Series, “Tether” premiered at the Studio Theater in the Cultural Art Center at Montgomery College on Feb. 18 and runs through March 13. Set on a tetherball<\/a> court during the 1990s, “Tether” tells the story of biracial teenage twins Lach (played by Gwen Grastorf<\/a>) and Lam (Jade Wheeler<\/a>) as they learn about religion, boys and race. Although they are similar in many ways, Lach’s skin is white and Lam’s is black. Oni gave the twins different skin colors after reading an article on the condition…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sister Act \u00a0 Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online 2011-03-02 Topher Forhecz, Staff Writer Montgomery College and Doorway Arts Ensemble presents the sisterly story \u2018Tether\u2019 When Julie Taiwo Oni wrote the play “Tether,” she did so not only to examine her relationship with her twin sister Jessica Kehinde Ngo, but also to answer a recurring question. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13,6,20],"tags":[5569,5573,5576,5577,5571,5575,5574],"class_list":["post-12433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-liveevents","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-doorway-arts-ensemble","tag-gazette-net-maryland-community-news-online","tag-gwen-grastorf","tag-jade-wheeler","tag-julie-taiwo-oni","tag-montgomery-college","tag-topher-forhecz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433","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=12433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}