{"id":56594,"date":"2018-06-26T00:50:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56594"},"modified":"2018-06-26T00:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:50:18","slug":"the-family-resemblance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56594","title":{"rendered":"The Family Resemblance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoneill.org\/nmtc18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Family Resemblance<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoneill.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eugene O&#8217;Neill Theater Center<\/a><br \/>\n305 Great Neck Road<br \/>\nWaterford, Connecticut 06385<br \/>\n<strong>2018-06-23 through 2018-06-29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoneill.org\/nmtc18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"comp-jg2r9ow2imgimage\" style=\"width: 570px; height: 279px; object-fit: cover;\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/12230b_dcbe402a743e4b50b52515ec07d1dcf3~mv2.png\/v1\/crop\/x_0,y_30,w_981,h_480\/fill\/w_981,h_480,al_c\/12230b_dcbe402a743e4b50b52515ec07d1dcf3~mv2.png\" alt=\"THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE \u2022 Book, Music, &amp; Lyrics by Masi Asare\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBook, music &amp; lyrics by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masiasare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Masi Asare<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoneill.org\/nmtc18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"comp-jg2r9oygimgimage\" style=\"width: 179px; height: 170px; object-fit: cover;\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/12230b_a63c40bfe43b4cd793f16edea0de3317~mv2.jpg\/v1\/crop\/x_0,y_8,w_374,h_357\/fill\/w_494,h_469,al_c,lg_1,q_90\/12230b_a63c40bfe43b4cd793f16edea0de3317~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Akosua and her family are expecting an ordinary Christmas back home in central <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania<\/a>, but heavy winds, a corporate crisis, and a visitation from an ancestor mean things do not go as planned. This semiautobiographical musical centers on three generations of one cross-cultural family\u2014a white mother, black father, two mixed race daughters, and the spirit of an African grandmother. Even when your heritage is all over the map, you have to go back to your roots to find your way forward. The score includes American folk and popular song, west African highlife, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akan_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Akan<\/a> classical music.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoneill.org\/nmtc18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semiautobiographical musical centers on three generations of one cross-cultural family\u2014a white mother, black father, two mixed race daughters, and the spirit of an African grandmother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,24,13,8,20],"tags":[28796,28797],"class_list":["post-56594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-arts","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-eugene-oneill-theater-center","tag-masi-asare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56594","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=56594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56595,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56594\/revisions\/56595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}