{"id":6138,"date":"2016-10-03T21:14:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T01:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/03\/a-darkly-comic-experience\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:31:48","slug":"a-darkly-comic-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-darkly-comic-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"A Darkly Comic Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a review in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/entertainment\/arts\/2016\/10\/01\/review-furman-stages-darkly-comic-birthday-party\/91396056\/\"><strong><em>The Greenville News<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, Furman\u2019s production of Harold Pinter\u2019s \u201cThe Birthday Party\u201d demonstrates that the show is \u201cmore than just an actor\u2019s showcase.\u201d \u00a0The play also \u201cretains a crude comic power and mystery that\u2019s uncomfortably contemporary. \u00a0It\u2019s almost a mashup of the surrealist work of Franz Kafka with the off-kilter thrills of Quentin Tarantino.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a review in The Greenville News, Furman\u2019s production of Harold Pinter\u2019s \u201cThe Birthday Party\u201d demonstrates that the show is \u201cmore than just an actor\u2019s showcase.\u201d \u00a0The play also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-theatre-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138","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=6138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}