{"id":60076,"date":"2020-08-26T00:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60076"},"modified":"2020-08-26T00:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:22:42","slug":"blue-beneath-my-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60076","title":{"rendered":"Blue Beneath My Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thealchemisttheatre.co.uk\/blue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Blue Beneath My Skin<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thealchemisttheatre.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Alchemist Theatre Company<\/a><br \/>\nLondon, United Kingdom<br \/>\n2020-06-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/macadie_amoroso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Macadie Amoroso<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thealchemisttheatre.co.uk\/blue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/0d1df4_5b16250d402e4f05b6d0cc39c55e74fc~mv2.jpeg\/v1\/fill\/w_830,h_830,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01\/BLUE%20BENEATH%20MY%20SKIN.webp\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cClothes allow me to choose how people see me,<br \/>\nClothes can speak louder than my skin\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Through the eyes of a 17-year-old mixed race girl, <em>Blue Beneath My Skin<\/em> explores the nuances of identity and ethnicity, and how self-perception and the perceptions put upon us can push us onto a destructive path.<\/p>\n<p><em>Blue beneath my skin<\/em> was fist performed at The Bunker Theatre in 2019 as part of the &#8216;This is Black&#8217; festival. In 2020 it was revived as part of East 15&#8217;s Debut Festival and won the King&#8217;s Head Theatre&#8217;s Stella Wilkie Award and was chosen for Pulse Festival.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/75x_s8h5480\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch the entire play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thealchemisttheatre.co.uk\/blue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the eyes of a 17-year-old mixed race girl, &#8220;Blue Beneath My Skin&#8221; explores the nuances of identity and ethnicity, and how self-perception and the perceptions put upon us can push us onto a destructive path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,125,8,10,842,25],"tags":[31087,30328],"class_list":["post-60076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-videos","category-women","tag-alchemist-theatre-company","tag-macadie-amoroso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60076","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=60076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60080,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60076\/revisions\/60080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}