{"id":2031,"date":"2014-02-24T15:52:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/24\/a-glowing-review-for-these-shining-lives\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:04:20","slug":"a-glowing-review-for-these-shining-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-glowing-review-for-these-shining-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"A glowing review for &#8220;These Shining Lives&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10245\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/shining-lives-theatre.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10245\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10245 lazyload\" alt=\"The Furman student cast shines in Theatre production.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/shining-lives-theatre.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"217\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 260px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 260\/217;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Furman student cast shines in Theatre production.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to <i>The Greenville News<\/i>, Furman theatre arts professor Maegan Azar\u2019s staging of \u201cThese Shining Lives\u201d at the Furman Playhouse is a glowing production in more ways than one. The play, by Melanie Marnich, unearths an incident in 1920s Chicago involving a group of female workers who suffered radium poisoning from painting luminous watch dials. The job made their hands shine, permanently. Worse, it resulted in debilitating and deadly illness. The <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20140221\/ENT01\/302210035\/Furman-students-radiant-Shining-Lives-\">review<\/a><\/b> by Paul Hyde said the \u201cFurman student ensemble relates the story with warmth and sensitivity under Azar\u2019s lyrical direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to <i>The Greenville News<\/i>, Furman theatre arts professor Maegan Azar\u2019s staging of \u201cThese Shining Lives\u201d at the Furman Playhouse is a glowing production in more ways than one. The play, by Melanie Marnich, unearths an incident in 1920s Chicago involving a group of female workers who suffered radium poisoning from painting luminous watch dials. The job made their hands shine, permanently. Worse, it resulted in debilitating and deadly illness. The <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20140221\/ENT01\/302210035\/Furman-students-radiant-Shining-Lives-\">review<\/a><\/b> by Paul Hyde said the \u201cFurman student ensemble relates the story with warmth and sensitivity under Azar\u2019s lyrical direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":12894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}