{"id":4337,"date":"2019-03-22T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2019-03-22T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:00:23","slug":"five-actors-work-wonders-in-one-of-shakespeares-greatest-tragedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4337","title":{"rendered":"Five Actors Work Wonders in One of Shakespeare\u2019s Greatest Tragedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Charissa Roberson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On March 19, Roanoke College welcomed a quintet of British artists with Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) for a magnificent performance of \u201cKing Lear,\u201d one of Shakespeare\u2019s most celebrated tragedies. Using a bare stage, minimal props, and inventive double casting, the five actors presented the complex and harrowing tale with formidable energy and talent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt gets to the root of theatre,\u201d said junior Emma Daisey, \u201cbecause it\u2019s so minimalistic.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several audience members commented on the resourceful ways the actors manipulated their few props to great artistic and emotional effect. In addition, each actor played multiple roles\u2014often within the same scene. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe double casting of the two sons\u2014hilarious,\u201d said freshman Claire McDonald. \u201cIt adds a layer of comedy, which is nice because [the play] is so serious.\u201d AFTLS is a program dedicated to education through entertainment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Five actors, from various prestigious theatre companies in the United Kingdom, provide students with the opportunity to watch high-quality performances and to learn from workshops, lectures, and other discussions which the actors facilitate. While AFTLS visited Roanoke, several classes enjoyed sessions with the actors, and a packed house in Olin Theatre witnessed their Tuesday performance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c[The production} is beautiful but also heartbreaking,\u201d said Dr. Nelson, assistant professor of Fine Arts. \u201cIt\u2019s tremendous to see the amount of entertainment that can be gotten out of a tragedy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Charissa Roberson On March 19, Roanoke College welcomed a quintet of British artists with Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) for a magnificent performance of \u201cKing Lear,\u201d one of Shakespeare\u2019s most celebrated tragedies. Using a bare stage, minimal props, and inventive double casting, the five actors presented the complex and harrowing tale with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}