{"id":60070,"date":"2020-08-25T23:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60070"},"modified":"2020-08-26T00:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:23:34","slug":"blue-beneath-my-skin-alchemist-theatre-co-streamed-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60070","title":{"rendered":"Blue Beneath My Skin, Alchemist Theatre Co. (Streamed Broadcast)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/breaking-the-fourth-wall.com\/2020\/06\/27\/blue-beneath-my-skin-alchemist-theatre-co-streamed-broadcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Blue Beneath My Skin, Alchemist Theatre Co. (Streamed Broadcast)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/breaking-the-fourth-wall.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breaking The Fourth Wall: Michael Davis&#8217; thoughts on theatre and the Arts.<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Michael30517721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Michael Davis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/breaking-the-fourth-wall.com\/2020\/06\/27\/blue-beneath-my-skin-alchemist-theatre-co-streamed-broadcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/breakingthefourthwallcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/06\/screenshot-4465-crop.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second entry in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thealchemisttheatre.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alchemist Theatre\u2019s<\/a> \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thealchemisttheatre.co.uk\/writers-on-hold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Writers On Hold<\/a>\u2019 series, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thealchemisttheatre.co.uk\/blue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Beneath My Skin<\/a><\/em> continues to explore the themes of racial identity and feminimity. Written and performed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/macadie_amoroso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Macadie Amoroso<\/a>, the monologue focuses on a 17-year-old mixed race girl, who after she was abandoned as a baby by a canal, was found and later raised by an all-white family.<\/p>\n<p>While \u2018Canal Baby\u2019 (Amoroso\u2019s character) has a \u2018comfortable\u2019 existence, domestic life does have its tensions. She\u2019s still close to her \u2018father\u2019, but he and her \u2018mother\u2019 are no longer a couple. Living in an all-female household (with \u2018mother\u2019 and \u2018sister\u2019), far from having many things in common, even neutral interests such as fashion are a divisive subject, where they seldom see eye-to-eye. Regardless of this, it is the one avenue where Amoroso\u2019s character feels she can express her individuality, irrespective of her family\u2019s opinions and tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking-the-fourth-wall.com\/2020\/06\/27\/blue-beneath-my-skin-alchemist-theatre-co-streamed-broadcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second entry in Alchemist Theatre\u2019s \u2018Writers On Hold\u2019 series, &#8220;Blue Beneath My Skin&#8221; continues to explore the themes of racial identity and feminimity. Written and performed by Macadie Amoroso, the monologue focuses on a 17-year-old mixed race girl, who after she was abandoned as a baby by a canal, was found and later raised by an all-white family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1196,8,10,25],"tags":[31083,31082,31081,30328,31080],"class_list":["post-60070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-women","tag-alchemist-theatres","tag-breaking-the-fourth-wall","tag-breaking-the-fourth-wall-michael-davis-thoughts-on-theatre-and-the-arts","tag-macadie-amoroso","tag-michael-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60070","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=60070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60081,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60070\/revisions\/60081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}