{"id":34480,"date":"2013-10-26T02:19:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T02:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34480"},"modified":"2013-10-26T02:34:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T02:34:39","slug":"the-road-weeps-the-well-runs-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34480","title":{"rendered":"the road weeps, the well runs dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thelatc.org\/2013\/shows\/the-road-weeps-the-well-runs-dry\/\" target=\"_blank\">the road weeps, the well runs dry<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelatc.org\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Theater Center<\/a><br \/>\n514 South Spring Street<br \/>\nLos Angeles, California 90013<br \/>\nTelephone: 213.489.0994<\/p>\n<p>2013-10-24 through 2013-11-17<br \/>\nThursday-Saturday: 20:00 PT (Local Time)<br \/>\nSunday: 15:00 PT (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p>Written by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newdramatists.org\/marcus-gardley\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Gardley<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDirected by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirleyjofinney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shirley Jo Finney<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelatc.org\/2013\/shows\/the-road-weeps-the-well-runs-dry\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thelatc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/319x470xRoadClean.jpg.pagespeed.ic.IIxqgzUrwi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Rolling World Premiere<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Surviving centuries of slavery, revolts, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trail_of_Tears\" target=\"_blank\">The Trail of Tears<\/a>, a community of self-proclaimed Freedmen creates the first all-black U.S. town in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wewoka,_Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">Wewoka, Oklahoma<\/a>. The Freedmen (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Seminoles\" target=\"_blank\">Black Seminoles<\/a> and people of mixed origins) are rocked when the new religion and the old way come head to head and their former enslavers arrive to return them to the chains of bondage.\u00a0 Written in gorgeously cadenced language, utilizing elements of African American folklore and daring humor, the road weeps, <em>the well runs dry<\/em> merges the myth, legends and history of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seminole\" target=\"_blank\">Seminole<\/a> people.<\/p>\n<p>Previews: October 24 &amp; 25<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/thelatc.org\/2013\/shows\/the-road-weeps-the-well-runs-dry\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the road weeps, the well runs dry Los Angeles Theater Center 514 South Spring Street Los Angeles, California 90013 Telephone: 213.489.0994 2013-10-24 through 2013-11-17 Thursday-Saturday: 20:00 PT (Local Time) Sunday: 15:00 PT (Local Time) Written by Marcus Gardley Directed by Shirley Jo Finney Rolling World Premiere Surviving centuries of slavery, revolts, and The Trail of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,459,13,3015,6,820,6940,20],"tags":[16240,16241,1777,16242,16243],"class_list":["post-34480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-history","category-liveevents","category-native-americans","category-new-media","category-religion","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-los-angeles-theater-center","tag-marcus-gardley","tag-oklahoma","tag-shirley-jo-finney","tag-wewoka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34480","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=34480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}