{"id":4397,"date":"2016-04-08T19:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T23:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/08\/furmans-arcadia-a-romantic-tragedy-with-jokes\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:53:46","slug":"furmans-arcadia-a-romantic-tragedy-with-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-arcadia-a-romantic-tragedy-with-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman\u2019s \u2018Arcadia\u2019 a Romantic Tragedy with Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Stoppard\u2019s Tony Award-winning play, \u201cArcadia,\u201d touches on such diverse ideas as fractal geometry, gossipy speculation about Lord Byron and contemporary academic backbiting. But, according to Furman theatre arts professor Jay Oney, it\u2019s really \u201ca thriller and romantic tragedy with jokes.\u201d <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/entertainment\/arts\/paul-hyde\/2016\/04\/07\/furmans-arcadia-romantic-tragedy-jokes\/82751382\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong> wrote a preview of the Furman Theatre\u2019s final production of the school year.\u00a0 The play is directed by Oney and runs through April 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Stoppard\u2019s Tony Award-winning play, \u201cArcadia,\u201d touches on such diverse ideas as fractal geometry, gossipy speculation about Lord Byron and contemporary academic backbiting. But, according to Furman theatre arts professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397","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=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}