{"id":53358,"date":"2015-06-25T06:28:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T10:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=53358"},"modified":"2015-06-23T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T18:56:37","slug":"behind-the-mask-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=53358","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Mask Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, June 25  7:30PM to 8:30PM<\/p>\n<p>Theater for the New City<\/p>\n<p>155 1st Ave, New York, New York 10003<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11428569_1069159426448120_332682800272565011_n.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[53358]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11428569_1069159426448120_332682800272565011_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yangtze will present a new adaptation of the original script that was written in 1999 by Huang WeiRuo and Feng BaiMing. The contemporary part of the play&#8211;the troupe\u2019s own story&#8211;is devised and created by Chongren Fan and ensemble. The play examines the current theatre world through a comic lens and throughout, the characters are aware of their own theatricality. Director Chongren Fan writes, &#8220;We get a taste of what&#8217;s going on in contemporary Chinese theater but also get a chance to explore how a theatre troupe works together to create an ensemble work.&#8221; The music in the play, composed by Xiren Wang, is new and modern, with a strong innovative approach to ancient Chinese music characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Performance will be in Mandarin Chinese with English Subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yangtze-rep-theatre.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.yangtze-rep-theatre.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, June 25 7:30PM to 8:30PM Theater for the New City 155 1st Ave, New York, New York 10003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53653,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53358\/revisions\/53653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}