{"id":301,"date":"2009-12-03T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.61\/~twisithe\/?p=301"},"modified":"2023-07-20T14:12:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T17:12:22","slug":"riveting-stuff-is-happening-at-the-royal-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Riveting Stuff is Happening At the Royal Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a> nigel shawn williams with hardee t. lineham, david fox and sarah orenstein (2008)<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

The old adage \u201cpower corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely\u201d is vividly on display in the Studio 180 <\/a>production of David Hare\u2019s play Stuff Happens<\/em> presented by Mirvish Productions <\/a>at the Royal Alexandra Theatre until December 23rd, 2009.
This play catapults its audience right into the centre of the Oval Office in the moments before September 11th, 2001 and with gripping urgency thrusts itself into the world of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice and Blair as they launch the world into the War on Terror and then curiously shift gears from one strategic quest for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan toward the ultimate invasion of Iraq. It is largely a piece of Verbatim Theatre, as Hare has successfully woven the plot together with real excerpts from political speeches, interviews, diaries and other sources within the public record, and it is continually difficult to differentiate between that which is historically accurate and that which has been concocted by the playwright. What is so striking is how Hare has captured such a sense of urgency, such a driving and riveting pulse while ultimately he is telling a story that is so familiar to us all. We are watching a recreation of events that we all lived through, whose effects still shape the world we live in each day. There is no suspense and no opportunity for a surprise ending. And yet, Hare\u2019s choice of words, the manner in which he chooses to cast light on each individual player, and his dramatic and shrewd sense of timing makes Stuff Happens<\/em> an intensely compelling evening at the theatre.
The performances in this production are absolutely top-notch. It is fantastic to see fifteen Canadian actors filling the Royal Alexandra stage and each one of them is at the very top of his\/her game. Sarah Orenstein gives a beautiful performance as a Palestinian academic who has one of the most poignant monologues in the play about how often those who have been continually victimized and whose history is besieged with oppression and brutally so often in their liberation and redemption become the captors and the oppressors of others. Paul Essiembre is wonderful as the shrewdly perceptive Dominic De Villepin who refuses to allow diplomacy to grant the United States a UN supported free access pass into Iraq solely for its own ambitions and political agenda. Karen Robinson plays Condoleezza Rice as, primarily, George W. Bush\u2019s translator, who acts like the White House\u2019s referee and keeps her own opinions on all matters strictly to herself. She captures Rice\u2019s poise and sense of propriety beautifully and is equally proficient in capturing her rare self-righteousness expressions of anger. Hardee T. Lineham plays a Dick Cheney who broods quietly throughout most of Act I and then seizes his moment, seemingly blinded by pure, dark visions of power dancing like machine gun wielding Sugar Plum Fairies across his consciousness. Lineham and David Fox (as Rumsfeld) have a chilling moment near the end of the play where all pretenses are thrown to the dogs and these two men speak candidly about their personal reasons for wanting to go to war in Iraq. Andrew Gillies captures Tony Blair\u2019s tense nervous sense of decorum amid chaos fantastically in a portrait of a man whose pursuit of lofty humanitarian ideals ultimately proves the theory that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
David Fox is brilliant as Donald Rumsfeld, with absolutely perfect physicality and Fox captures his vocal quality with unbelievable precision. Michael Healy inhabits the role of George W. Bush so entirely, he becomes nearly unrecognizable. He has the former President\u2019s vocal timbre down so perfectly, if you close your eyes you may be tricked into thinking that you are listening to a prerecorded presidential speech. Healey\u2019s performance was also distinctly hysterical, both in the quotations that Hare chose to include in the play and in the actor\u2019s flawless delivery. Stuff Happens<\/em> is a play filled with some of the strongest personalities in recent history, and I could see that in different productions of this play different performances may stand out as being the \u201cstarring\u201d role. In Toronto, the star is undeniably Nigel Shawn Williams as Colin Powell. Williams gives such an impassioned performance as a man torn between his moral instinct to do \u201cthe right thing\u201d and his commitment to respect and dutifully obey the orders from his government. Williams has all of Powell\u2019s dignity, his intelligence, his strength and his humanity and it is fascinating to contrast Williams\u2019 Powell, who is so filled with emotions and feelings and genuine concern, with all his American colleagues who are dangerously devoid of them. Joel Greenberg directs the play with vivid creativity and the utmost precision. The production is clean, sharp and has all the professionalism of a tightly-run meeting in the boardroom.
Stuff Happens<\/em> is a gripping play and for any one who opposed the Iraq invasion, who objected to the Bush Regime and the choices of the Republican Party of the United States of America, this play reaffirms the position that the choice to defeat Saddam Hussein and destabilize his country was not rooted in humanitarian efforts or directly linked to the 9-11 attacks. It turns Cheney and Rumsfeld into villains and makes fun of George W. Bush at every opportunity. While I found this fun, I also found myself asking if Hare\u2019s play wasn\u2019t a little bit *too* one-sided. Yet, as much as I deliberate on the issue, I am at a loss for what exhibition of virtue Hare could have injected into his Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush to make them more complex and sympathetic. The one complex issue that this play raised for me was one that I had not previously encountered: should the United Nations have supported America\u2019s invasion of Iraq, not because it agreed with the mission, but because with the support of the rest of the Western World, the Iraqi people may have been better provided for throughout the insurgency. This question has percolated in my mind since last evening and remains one for which I do not have an answer.
There is a monologue near the beginning of the play in which a frustrated journalist (played by Essiembre) rants that we are so \u201cWestern\u201d in our need to debate and to intellectualize the methods of every political decision. Stuff Happens<\/em> is an incredibly \u201cWestern\u201d play, but it is one that seems to suggest its own limitations, its own bias and one that refuses to accept the rhetoric that was created to sell a war, to mobilize an army and to invade a country which has killed between 94,349 and 102,949<\/a> innocent Iraqis. The curtain may have fallen on Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice and Blair; may it, like in Hare\u2019s play, now rise on Iraq and the country\u2019s need for relief from the devastating consequences of America\u2019s \u201cWar on Terror.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stuff Happens<\/em> plays at the Royal Alexandra Theatre until December 23rd. Call 416.872.1212 or visit <\/strong>www.mirvish.com<\/strong><\/a> for tickets and more information. For Discounts use the following codes: $25 Equity tickets with the code EQUITY and 25% off for all with code STUFF25. <\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

nigel shawn williams with hardee t. lineham, david fox and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4671],"tags":[5079,6223,7063,4884,6116,5661,5549,4458,4463,7062,4181,7061,5944],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-andrew-gillies","tag-david-fox","tag-david-hare","tag-hardee-t-lineham","tag-joel-greenberg","tag-karen-robinson","tag-michael-healey","tag-mirvish-productions","tag-nigel-shawn-williams","tag-paul-essiembre","tag-royal-alexandra-theatre","tag-sarah-orenstein","tag-studio-180"],"yoast_head":"\nRiveting Stuff is Happening At the Royal Alex - The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Riveting Stuff is Happening At the Royal Alex - The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"nigel shawn williams with hardee t. lineham, david fox and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/twisihalifax\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-12-03T10:21:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-20T17:12:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/SxdcYIhG1nI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/Ln-E_9wVyuA\/s400\/stuffhappens.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Amanda Campbell\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amanda Campbell\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Amanda Campbell\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2acdb91c67a7c73bbe572ed62f39cf80\"},\"headline\":\"Riveting Stuff is Happening At the Royal Alex\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-12-03T10:21:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-20T17:12:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301\"},\"wordCount\":1217,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/SxdcYIhG1nI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/Ln-E_9wVyuA\/s400\/stuffhappens.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"andrew gillies\",\"david fox\",\"david hare\",\"hardee t. lineham\",\"joel greenberg\",\"karen robinson\",\"michael healey\",\"mirvish productions\",\"nigel shawn williams\",\"paul essiembre\",\"royal alexandra theatre\",\"sarah orenstein\",\"studio 180\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Review\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301\",\"name\":\"Riveting Stuff is Happening At the Royal Alex - The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/SxdcYIhG1nI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/Ln-E_9wVyuA\/s400\/stuffhappens.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-12-03T10:21:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-20T17:12:22+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/SxdcYIhG1nI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/Ln-E_9wVyuA\/s400\/stuffhappens.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/SxdcYIhG1nI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/Ln-E_9wVyuA\/s400\/stuffhappens.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Riveting Stuff is Happening At the Royal Alex\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Way I See It Theatre\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cropped-twisi-header-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cropped-twisi-header-1.png\",\"width\":4831,\"height\":1568,\"caption\":\"The Way I See It Theatre\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/twisihalifax\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/twisiblog\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2acdb91c67a7c73bbe572ed62f39cf80\",\"name\":\"Amanda Campbell\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Amanda Campbell\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Riveting Stuff is Happening At the Royal Alex - The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Riveting Stuff is Happening At the Royal Alex - The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog","og_description":"nigel shawn williams with hardee t. lineham, david fox and","og_url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301","og_site_name":"The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/twisihalifax","article_published_time":"2009-12-03T10:21:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-07-20T17:12:22+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/SxdcYIhG1nI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/Ln-E_9wVyuA\/s400\/stuffhappens.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Amanda Campbell","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Amanda Campbell","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301"},"author":{"name":"Amanda Campbell","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2acdb91c67a7c73bbe572ed62f39cf80"},"headline":"Riveting Stuff is Happening At the Royal Alex","datePublished":"2009-12-03T10:21:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-20T17:12:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301"},"wordCount":1217,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/SxdcYIhG1nI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/Ln-E_9wVyuA\/s400\/stuffhappens.jpg","keywords":["andrew gillies","david fox","david hare","hardee t. lineham","joel greenberg","karen robinson","michael healey","mirvish productions","nigel shawn williams","paul essiembre","royal alexandra theatre","sarah orenstein","studio 180"],"articleSection":["Review"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301","url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301","name":"Riveting Stuff is Happening At the Royal Alex - The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/SxdcYIhG1nI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/Ln-E_9wVyuA\/s400\/stuffhappens.jpg","datePublished":"2009-12-03T10:21:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-20T17:12:22+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/SxdcYIhG1nI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/Ln-E_9wVyuA\/s400\/stuffhappens.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/SxdcYIhG1nI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/Ln-E_9wVyuA\/s400\/stuffhappens.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=301#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Riveting Stuff is Happening At the Royal Alex"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/","name":"The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization","name":"The Way I See It Theatre","url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cropped-twisi-header-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cropped-twisi-header-1.png","width":4831,"height":1568,"caption":"The Way I See It Theatre"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/twisihalifax","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/twisiblog\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2acdb91c67a7c73bbe572ed62f39cf80","name":"Amanda Campbell","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Amanda Campbell"},"url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}