{"id":16175,"date":"2003-04-13T08:14:43","date_gmt":"2003-04-13T12:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/04\/13\/1066.html"},"modified":"2003-04-13T08:14:43","modified_gmt":"2003-04-13T12:14:43","slug":"on-a-lighter-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/04\/13\/on-a-lighter-note\/","title":{"rendered":"On a lighter note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning's New York Times had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/04\/13\/arts\/theater\/13SHEW.html\">an article<\/a> about <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.playwrightshorizons.org\/now_new.htm\">She Stoops to Comedy<\/a><\/i>, a new play by David Greenspan. The conceit, essentially, is that a lesbian couple is having difficulties, as Alexandra is terribly possessive; when her girlfriend gets cast as Rosalind in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.online-literature.com\/shakespeare\/youlike\/\">As You Like It<\/a>, Alexandra disguises herself as a man to audition for Orlando.\n<p>So, (everybody who's already got it can pretty much stop reading the note now) in the great bits where Rosalind, in men's clothes, taunts love-struck Orlando, it's a woman dressed as a man and a woman dressed as a man. Only Alexandra is played by the author, so it's actually a man dressed as a woman dressed as a man being taunted by a woman dressed as a woman dressed as a man. The man doesn't recognize the woman he loves but is strangely and uncomfortably attracted to this guy; the woman doesn't recognize the woman she loves but (I'm guessing) is strangely and uncomfortably attracted to this guy.\n<p>I have no idea whether the actual play is any good, but I'm vastly entertained by the idea.\n<p>Thank you,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s New York Times had an article about She Stoops to Comedy, a new play by David Greenspan. The conceit, essentially, is that a lesbian couple is having difficulties, as Alexandra is terribly possessive; when her girlfriend gets cast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nytimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}