{"id":5803,"date":"2014-06-23T09:55:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2014-06-23T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T13:55:28","slug":"mamets-shuts-down-his-play-over-gender-reassignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5803","title":{"rendered":"Mamet Shuts Down His Play Over Gender Reassignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Alchemist Theatre received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/entertainment\/arts\/mamet-letter-forces-alchemist-to-cancel-oleanna-after-1-performance-b99295992z1-264051181.html\">a cease-and-desist letter<\/a> from playwright David Mamet after one performance of Mamet&#8217;s <i>Oleanna<\/i>, a play about a pompous male professor accused of sexual harassment by a female student. The Alchemist&#8217;s production <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/entertainment\/arts\/alchemist-theatre-delivers-intense-take-on-david-mamets-oleanna-b99292171z1-264004091.html\">cast a man in the role<\/a> of the female student. Theatre owners claimed they &#8220;did not change the character of Carol but allowed the reality of gender and relationship fluidity to add to the impact of the story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mamet disagreed. I don&#8217;t think he plays the &#8220;gender fluidity&#8221; game. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/prufrock\/\">Prufrock<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Alchemist Theatre received a cease-and-desist letter from playwright David Mamet after one performance of Mamet&#8217;s Oleanna, a play about a pompous male professor accused of sexual harassment by a female student. The Alchemist&#8217;s production cast a man in the role of the female student. Theatre owners claimed they &#8220;did not change the character &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mamet Shuts Down His Play Over Gender Reassignment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[681],"class_list":["post-5803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-david-mamet"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}