{"id":9488,"date":"2021-08-16T17:15:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/08\/16\/an-our-town-for-our-time-staged-in-the-new-england-community-that-inspired-it\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:42:24","slug":"an-our-town-for-our-time-staged-in-the-new-england-community-that-inspired-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/an-our-town-for-our-time-staged-in-the-new-england-community-that-inspired-it\/","title":{"rendered":"An \u2018Our Town\u2019 for our time, staged in the New England community that inspired it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lighting and sound designer, Kevin Frazier &#8217;07, a Furman University theatre arts graduate, snags a mention in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/theater_dance\/our-town-peterborough\/2021\/08\/11\/198bcf1c-f86b-11eb-943a-c5cf30d50e6a_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> <\/strong>for his work in the Peterborough Players&#8217; (New Hampshire) production of &#8220;Our Town.&#8221; The play, reviewed by WAPO&#8217;s chief theater critic Peter Marks, is Thornton Wilder&#8217;s circle-of-life story chronicled by citizens of fictional Grover&#8217;s Corner.<\/p>\n<p>Performed outdoors in 2021 in the locale popularly believed to be the inspiration for the original 1938 play, the production received praise from Marks for its &#8220;rainbow&#8221; cast and creative sound design. &#8220;A few sound effects \u2014 the patter of raindrops, for instance \u2014 competed with the croaking of Peterborough\u2019s crickets. Or were they part of Kevin Frazier\u2019s sound design, too?&#8221; Marks writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lighting and sound designer, Kevin Frazier &#8217;07, a Furman University theatre arts graduate, snags a mention in The Washington Post for his work in the Peterborough Players&#8217; (New Hampshire) production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,41,1],"tags":[978,979,980,981],"class_list":["post-9488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-theatre-arts","category-uncategorized","tag-diversity-on-stage","tag-our-town","tag-sound-design","tag-theatre-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}