{"id":16816,"date":"2015-03-17T11:16:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/?p=16816"},"modified":"2015-03-17T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:16:48","slug":"shining-city-at-main-stage-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/shining-city-at-main-stage-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining City at Main Stage West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Shining City<\/em>, by Conor McPherson, recently received an excellent staging by Main Stage West in Sebastopol. Directed by MSW Executive Director Beth Craven, the xxx play by one of Ireland&#8217;s best-known playwrights may disappoint those who were so enthralled by MSW&#8217;s earlier production of McPherson&#8217;s <em>The Weir<\/em>. Both plays display the playwright&#8217;s extraordinary gift for dialogue, but whereas <em>The Weir<\/em> is a true <em>play<\/em>, i.e., things happen, conflicts abound, situations evolve, etc., <em>Shining City<\/em> just sits there. One actor hogs the set with a spectacularly long tale of hallucinatory grief, while three others stand by to do their annotations to the central theme. Which is? Strangely, one-night stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shining City, by Conor McPherson, recently received an excellent staging by Main Stage West in Sebastopol. Directed by MSW Executive Director Beth Craven, the xxx play by one of Ireland&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[601],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-test-review"},"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":true,"span_bottom":"<div class='yasr-small-block-bold'><span class='yasr-visitor-votes-must-sign-in'>You must sign in to vote<\/span><\/div>"},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}