{"id":16210,"date":"2024-03-06T08:38:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=16210"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:02:29","slug":"elizabethtown-college-tempest-theatre-to-present-spring-mainstage-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/elizabethtown-college-tempest-theatre-to-present-spring-mainstage-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Tempest Theatre to Present Spring Mainstage Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Gavin Ross &#8217;27 (Undecided major), Rosalie Kareha &#8217;26 (Secondary English Education major), and Jayden Ryan &#8217;26 (English Professional Writing major, Creative Writing minor)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elizabethtown College\u2019s Tempest Theatre will present <a href=\"https:\/\/www.showtix4u.com\/event-details\/79027\">\u201cMelancholy Play,&#8221; written by Sarah Ruhl,<\/a> for its spring mainstage production. The show will run for two weekends in March and will be performed on Friday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m., March 16 and 17 at 3 p.m., as well as Thursday, March 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 23 at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cDespite the play&#8217;s title, \u2018Melancholy\u2019 is anything but,\u201d Student Director Emily \u201cEm\u201d Clark said. \u201cIt is a charming, funny show that will keep you on the edge of your seat!\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A romantic comedy accompanied by live music, \u201cMelancholy Play\u201d tells the story of a bank teller named Tilly, whose sadness is a siren song to all who witness it, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, Tilly becomes happy and everyone around her sees it as a tragedy and it is up to her to save them from the fallout.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets, which are $8 for students and alumni and $10 for general admission, are available for purchase at the door or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.showtix4u.com\/event-details\/79027\">online<\/a>. Please be advised, that if you have an allergy to tree nuts or peanuts there will be real tree nuts used on stage during the production.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the production, visit the Etown Theatre Club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/etowntheatreclubs?igsh=MXNjYWdjNzJld3ps\">Instagram<\/a><u> and Facebook<\/u> accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Gavin Ross &#8217;27 (Undecided major), Rosalie Kareha &#8217;26 (Secondary English Education major), and Jayden Ryan &#8217;26 (English Professional Writing major, Creative Writing minor) Elizabethtown College\u2019s Tempest Theatre will present \u201cMelancholy Play,&#8221; written by Sarah Ruhl, for its spring mainstage production. The show will run for two weekends in March and will be performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":16212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[774,775,7],"tags":[197,1350,2188,130,426],"class_list":["post-16210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-campus","category-campus-community","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-melancholy-play","tag-tempest-theatre","tag-theatre","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16234,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16210\/revisions\/16234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}