{"id":43900,"date":"2017-02-02T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=43900"},"modified":"2022-09-29T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:57:03","slug":"wright-state-presents-controversial-childrens-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/02\/02\/wright-state-presents-controversial-childrens-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State presents controversial \u2018Children\u2019s Hour\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>Lies encircling an all-girls boarding school fuels the engrossing events within Lillian Hellman\u2019s controversial, rarely produced 1934 drama \u201cThe Children\u2019s Hour,\u201d which will be presented by Wright State University beginning Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Festival Playhouse of the Creative Arts Center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>Inspired by an 1810 incident at a school in Edinburgh, Scotland, featured in the 1930 true crime anthology \u201cBad Companions,\u201d the play centers on a student\u2019s vicious lie about her teachers Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, insinuating they were lesbians. In addition to exploring the ensuing consequences of the fib, the play spotlights the psychology of lying and the depths of relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/events\/performing-arts\/wright-state-presents-controversial-children-hour\/F2pzryEeIS6PeeZfhpefaJ\/\">Dayton Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Lies encircling an all-girls boarding school fuels the engrossing events within Lillian Hellman\u2019s controversial, rarely produced 1934 drama \u201cThe Children\u2019s Hour,\u201d which will be presented by Wright State University beginning Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Festival Playhouse of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/02\/02\/wright-state-presents-controversial-childrens-hour\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":43952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43902,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43900\/revisions\/43902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}