{"id":865,"date":"2016-02-17T19:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/furman-theatre-to-present-childrens-hour-by-lillian-hellman\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:52:50","slug":"furman-theatre-to-present-childrens-hour-by-lillian-hellman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-theatre-to-present-childrens-hour-by-lillian-hellman\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman University Theatre to present &#8220;The Children&#8217;s Hour&#8221; by Lillian Hellman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Childrens-Hour-PS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4625 lazyload\" title=\"Childrens-Hour-PS\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Childrens-Hour-PS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"258\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 360px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 360\/258;\" \/><\/a>OCTOBER 17, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>The Furman University Theatre will present \u201cThe Children\u2019s Hour\u201d by Lillian Hellman Wednesday, Oct. 31 through Saturday, Nov. 3, and Wednesday, Nov. 7 through Saturday, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. in the Furman Playhouse. A matinee will be performed on Sunday, Nov. 4 at 3 p.m. in the Furman Playhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The production is open to the public. Tickets are $16 general admission, $13 for seniors and $8 for students. Season tickets are also available.<\/p>\n<p>Hellman\u2019s \u201cThe Children\u2019s Hour\u201d deftly considers the suppression of desire and the power of lies when little Mary tells a malicious lie about her teachers. The play was originally seen on Broadway in 1934, filmed with Merle Oberon and Joel McRae in 1936, and again with Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner in 1961, and most recently rose to acclaim in London with Elizabeth Moss (\u201cMad Men\u201d) and Keira Knightley.<\/p>\n<p>Banned from English stages until 1960, the play is set in a New England school for girls, where a troublemaking student accuses her teachers of illicit passions with explosive results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Children\u2019s Hour\u201d is a classic of 20<sup>th<\/sup>-century American theatre by a writer who paved the way for Arthur Miller\u2019s \u201cThe Crucible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furman theatre professor Jay Oney directs the play. Scenery and lighting are designed by Alan Bryson, and Gene Funderburk designs sound. Furman senior Caroline Davis is costume designer.<\/p>\n<p>For ticket information and reservations, call the Theatre Box Office at 864-294-2125.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCTOBER 17, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>The Furman University Theatre will present \u201cThe Children\u2019s Hour\u201d by Lillian Hellman Wednesday, Oct. 31 through Saturday, Nov. 3, and Wednesday, Nov. 7 through Saturday, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. in the Furman Playhouse. A matinee will be performed on Sunday, Nov. 4 at 3 p.m. in the Furman Playhouse.\u00a0The production is open to the public. Hellman\u2019s \u201cThe Children\u2019s Hour\u201d deftly considers the suppression of desire and the power of lies when little Mary tells a malicious lie about her teachers.\u00a0Tickets are $16 general admission, $13 for seniors and $8 for students. Season tickets are also available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-theatre-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}