{"id":37794,"date":"2014-10-24T12:08:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37794"},"modified":"2014-10-24T12:08:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:08:47","slug":"performance-added-for-one-woman-play-at-willamette-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37794","title":{"rendered":"Performance added for one-woman play at Willamette U."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesmanjournal.com\/story\/life\/2014\/10\/14\/performance-added-for-one-woman-play-at-willamette-u\/17053071\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Performance added for one-woman play at Willamette U.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesmanjournal.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Salem Statesman-Journal<\/a><br \/>\nSalem, Oregon<br \/>\n2014-10-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RastrelliSJ\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tom Mayhall Rastrelli<\/strong><\/a>, Fine Arts\u00a0&amp; Culture Writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/damariswebb.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Damaris Webb<\/a> will debut her one-woman play \u201cThe Box Marked Black: Tales from a Halfrican American growing up Mulatto. With sock puppets!\u201d at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 and 25 at M. Lee Pelton Theatre, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willamette.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Willamette University<\/a>, 900 State St. According to the box office, the performance Oct. 24 is sold out, but the recently-added performance Oct. 25 has many tickets available.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_The_Jeffersons_supporting_characters#Jenny_Willis_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Willis<\/a> from \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Jeffersons\" target=\"_blank\">The Jeffersons<\/a>\u201d as a guide, Webb will narrate her experience of living in an interracial family with storytelling, dance, song and puppetry. The play asks what it means to be black, but it\u2019s themes of abandonment, belonging, fear and acceptance, are universal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, telling my story will create space for others to unpack and breathe around their own varied identities,\u201d Webb said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesmanjournal.com\/story\/life\/2014\/10\/14\/performance-added-for-one-woman-play-at-willamette-u\/17053071\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance added for one-woman play at Willamette U. The Salem Statesman-Journal Salem, Oregon 2014-10-13 Tom Mayhall Rastrelli, Fine Arts\u00a0&amp; Culture Writer Damaris Webb will debut her one-woman play \u201cThe Box Marked Black: Tales from a Halfrican American growing up Mulatto. With sock puppets!\u201d at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 and 25 at M. Lee Pelton Theatre, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,8,20],"tags":[18185,18188,18187,18189],"class_list":["post-37794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-damaris-webb","tag-salem-statesman-journal","tag-the-salem-statesman-journal","tag-tom-mayhall-rastrelli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37794","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=37794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}